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WEYMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 


HISTORICAL SKETCH 


OF THE 


TOWN OF WEYMOUTH, 


MASSACHUSETTS, 


PROM 1622 TO: 18:84: 


COMPILED BY 


GILBERT NASH, 


RECORDING SECRETARY OF THE WEYMOUTH HistoricaL Socrety, MEMBER OF THE NEW 
ENGLAND Historic, GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, AND OF THE 
WEBSTER Historical Society. 


PUBLISHED BY THE TOWN OF WEYMOUTH, 
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE 
WEYMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 


1885. 





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By the courtesy of Gilbert Nash, Esq., the author of this 
Sketch of Weymouth, I have been permitted to examine the 
advance sheets of the book. Finding that his labors have been 
so conscientiously and faithfully executed, it gives me great 
pleasure to accede to his request to write a few prefatory words. 

The town of Weymouth has a remarkable history, and may 
well be congratulated on having an historian so familiar with 
the details of its early life and so competent to record them. 
It was the first settlement made within what afterward became 
the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, and this very antiquity gives 
an additional interest to its annals. The obscurity surrounding 
its origin tends to invest the story with a romance which only 
increases the zeal of the antiquary. It has attracted the atten- 
tion of the novelist, and in modern times has prompted the 
most critical researches of the scholar. Under these circum- 
stances the appearance of this work makes an important acces- 
sion to the literature of our local history. 

Within a few years the study of the origin and nature of New 
England towns, with a special reference to their political 
methods and their management of practical questions, has re- 
ceived a fresh impulse, which opens a wide field for investiga- 
tion. There are now but few places in the State that have 
not their history either in book or pamphlet; and it is to such 
publications that writers on this subject must look hereafter for 
their authorities. The New England town system is of native 
growth, and has sprung from the needs of the people. This 
system took root in the soil of Plymouth, and afterward in 
that of Massachusetts Bay, though its development has been 
modified from time to time by the varying circumstances of dif- 
ferent communities. Some features were inherited from the 


vi PREFACE. 


parishes of England, and perhaps even from earlier sources ; but 
the essential characteristics, such as levying taxes, settling the 
minister, supporting free schools, laying out highways, and 
attending to the prudential affairs of the town, were decidedly 
New England in their origin. Nowhere else were these subjects 
managed with such freedom and without restraint from any 
quarter. In other words, the small settlements springing up 
under this system were little republics, and they have since fur- 
nished the germ of our State and national governments. In- 
separably connected with their existence was the town meeting, 
where the utterance of popular wants took shape, — where the 
abstract idea in politics assumed a concrete form and went abroad 
as the will of the people. 

The town meeting is the unit of political expression, and the 
value of the aggregate depends upon the extent of personal con- 
viction. ‘The instincts of the masses coming together to act on | 
questions of public policy are always honest, and here the pop- 
ular heart is best studied. The rulers of the nation, who are 
but the servants of the people, appreciate this fact, and are ever 
ready to feel the impulse, so delicate and sensitive is the con- 
nection between the power and its source. 

Local histories deal largely with these matters, and some- 
times the humblest narratives throw the clearest light; and 
writers of philosophical history, which treats of causes as well 
as of results, cannot afford to overlook them in their investiga- 
tions. Such works hereafter will be a great help to the author 
and scholar. 

The Weymouth Historical Society, under whose patronage 
this Sketch is now published, is an association formed for the 
purpose of preserving the history of its neighborhood, and 
has already printed one other volume. By its labors the Soci- 
ety has placed itself abreast of the active organizations of its 
kind, and set an excellent example to be followed in the sev- 
eral towns of the Commonwealth. 

In conclusion, I wish to call attention to the full and com- 
plete Index of the book, which adds largely to its value. 


SAMUEL A. GREEN. 
Boston, January 20, 1885. 


CONTENTS. 


PREFACE (by Dr. Samuel A. Green) 


INTRODUCTION . ? , 3 5 5 5 A 4 : - 


CHAPTER I. 


Geography — Geology — General History — Weston’s Colony — 
Gorges’s Settlement —Hull’s Company—Ecclesiastical Troubles 
— Pequod War — Emigration — Town Government. . : 


CHAPTER II. 


King Philip War—Company of Horse— Town Affairs — Sir 
Edmund Andros — Military Company — Canadian Expedition 
— Local Matters— Town Boundaries— New Precinct — Dr. 
White — Town Regulations — Parsonage Property — Pigwac- 
ket Indians —Town Commons — Throat Distemper — French 
and Indian War— French Neutrals — Dr. Tufts — Highways 
— South Precinct | P ‘ : ; - - F 


CHAPTER III. 


Revolutionary War— Arbitrary Measures of the Crown — Agents 
chosen to meet in Boston — Committees of Correspondence — 
No more Tea— Energetic Action— Record of Votes on the 
Resolutions of Congress — Refusal to pay Taxes to the Royal 
Treasury — Town Committee of Correspondence — Miuute- 
men — Preparations for War — Raising Troops — Declaration 
of Independence — Bounties — State Convention — State Con- 
stitution — Procuring Men and Provisions — Soldiers to Hull . 


CHAPTER IV. 


Recovering from the Effects of the War— Work-house — Local 


Matters — Small-pox — Norfolk County — Attempt to divide 


the Town — Business Enterprises — Post-oflice — War with 


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England — Alarm at Cohasset— Town Lines — Manufactur- 
ing Companies discouraged — Surplus Revenue — Anti-sla- 
very Resolutions — Town Records — Town Hall— War of the 
Rebellion — Opening Scenes — Twelfth Regiment — Raising 
Troops — Military Records — Counties — Thirty-fifth Regi- 
ment — Town Bonds and Seal— Forty-second Regiment — 
Contributions — Difficulties — Fourth Heavy Artillery — Final 
Attempt to divide the Town — Soldiers’ Monument — Two 
Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary — Water Question — Fire 
Department — Growth of the Town. - ; : “ - 72 


CHAPTER V. 


Ecclesiastical History — Congregational Churches: First Church . 95 


CHAPTER YI. 


Congregational Churches (continued): Second Church, Union 
Church of Weymouth and Braintree, Union Church of South 
Weymouth, Congregational Church & East Weymouth, Pil- 
grim Church — Methodist Episcopal: Church at East Wey- 
mouth, Church at Lovell’s Corner — Universalist: First 
Church, Second Church, Third Church — Baptist: First 
Church — Roman Catholic: Parish of St. Francis Xavier, 
Parish of the Immaculate Conception, Parish of the Sacred 
Heart, Parish of St. Jerome — Protestant Episcopal: Trinity 
Parish . : : 5 : : - ° : : - ., 205 


CHAPTER VII. 


Educational Institutions: Public Schools — Weymouth and Brain- 
tree Academy — Newspapers — Weymouth Historical Society 
— Social Libraries — Mutual Library Associations — Tufts 
Library : 4 . : - : . - - . » 125 


CHAPTER VIII. 


Beet) Organizations: Early Companies, Company for the Castle, 
Weymouth Light Horse, Weymouth Artillery, Weymouth 
Light Infantry, Franklin Guards, Grand Army of the Repub- 
lic, Lincoln Post, No. 40, Read: Post, 58— Societies and 
Associations: Masonic: Orphans’ Hope Lodge, Delta Lodge, 
South Shore Commandery, Pentalpa Royal Arch Chapter — 

Odd Fellows: Crescent Lodge, Wildey Lodge, Wompatuck 
Encampment — Knights of Pythias : Delphi Lodge — Knights 
of Honor: Pilgrim Lodge — Weymouth Agricultural and 
Industrial Society — Other Organizations . . ‘ : : hoy 


CONTENTS. 


CIAPTER IX. 


Business Enterprises — Mills : The Waltham-Richards-Bates Mill, 
Tide Mill, Tirrell’s Mill, Reed’s Mill, Loud’s Mill, Vinson’s 
Mill, Dyer’s Mill — Turnpikes : Weymouth and Braintree, New 
Bedford, Hingham and Quincy — Railroads: Old Colony, 
South Shore — Expresses — Telegraph — Telephones — Finan- 
cial Corporations — Banks: Union National, National of 
South Weymouth — Savings Banks: Weymouth, South Wey- 
mouth, and East Weymouth — Weymouth and Braintree Fire 
Insurance Company — Manufactures: Boots and Shoes — 
Weymouth Iron Company — Fish Company — Weymouth 
Commercial Company —Ice Companies — Bradley Fertilizer 
Company — Ship Building — Bay State Hammock Company — 
Howe and French — Fire-works — Mitten Factory — Miscel- 
laneous . ’ . : : ° : ‘ . : 


CHAPTER X. 


Ministers of the First Church: William Morrell, Mr. Barnard, 
Joseph Hull, Thomas Jenner, Robert Lenthal, Samuel New- 
man, Thomas Thacher, Samuel Torrey, Peter Thacher, Thomas 
Paine, William Smith, Jacob Norton, Josiah Bent, Jr., John 
C. Phillips, Joshua Emery, Jr., Franklin P. Chapin; and of 
the Second Church: James Bayley, Simeon Williams ° 


CHAPTER XI. 
Physicians of Weymouth . 


CHAPTER XII. 
Military Record, 1861-1865 ° - : . 


APPENDI ES. 


APPENDIX A. 
List of the Hull Company gets - 3 - = * . 


APPENDIX B. 
Indian Deed of Weymouth : : : : ° ~ we 


APPENDIX C. 


Property Owners and Description of Property in 1643 : First Divis- 
ion, 1636; Second Division, 1651 ; List of 1663 


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143 


157 


180 


214 


247 


251 


254 


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APPENDIX D, 


Personal Sketches: Major James Humphrey, Gen. Solomon Lovell, 
Dea. Nathaniel Bayley, James Humphrey, 3d, Esq., Gen. James 


L. Bates é ; : 285 


APPENDIX E. 
Instructious to James Humphrey, Esq., 1765 . - : : . 296 


APPENDIX F. 
List of Soldiers in the Revolutionary War : - : : - 300 


INDEX é ‘ . : A : > ‘ 7 . « 2a06 


INTRODUCTION. 


Tue larger portion of the text of the following historical 
sketch of the town of Weymouth, Mass., was originally pub- 
lished in the “ History of Norfolk County, Mass.,” recently 
issued by Messrs. J. W. Lewis & Co., from the press of J. B. 
Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, and was intended merely to 
answer the needs of sucha publication. The volume being a 
large one, and the price heavy, the circulation, even in the 
town, has been extremely limited, and comparatively few of its 
inhabitants know that such a work has been placed before the 
public, so that the wants of the people for more knowledge of 
their own local history have not been met, even to the limited 
extent covered by this sketch. 

The committee of the town, to which was referred the mat- 
ter of collecting materials for a town history, finding the work 
growing upon its hands, with no probability of accomplishing 
the purpose of its creation for a considerable time, and know- 
ing that the call for some result of its labor is becoming more 
and more urgent, has decided to republish the sketch in a form 
for convenient circulation among the people at a moderate ex- 
pense, with the addition of much original matter, including full 
notes upon important points where the brevity of the original 
text requires it, and also a full index, an addition imperatively 
demanded by the readers of the present day, especially in 
works of this character. 

In thus answering temporarily the public want in this direc- 
tion, while the more complete and thorough history of the town 
awaits its accomplishment, the committee believes it has acted 
for the best interests of the town, and in accordance with the 


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opinions of the best historical scholars who are familiar with 
such matters and whose advice has been taken. 

In the experience of the past, the attempt to prepare and 
publish at a first draft even a local history has not resulted suc- 
cessfully, and it has been found necessary in a short time to go 
over the ground again for the correction of errors and to incor- 
porate the results of more thorough research; and it has been 
found a much more judicious plan to publish first a preliminary 
work, covering briefly the ground, in order to draw out criti- 
cism and new material, of which there is much in every com- 
munity of which no one but the possessors knows anything, and 
oftentimes of which even they are ignorant, and also for the 
correction of errors, of which the most carefully prepared work 
will contain many. 

It is with such ideas that the committee has decided to place 
this sketch before the public: first, to present in brief the in- 
formation already in its hands ; and second, to inspire an enthu- 
siasm upon the subject which shall induce more thorough search 
for the hidden material now beyond its reach, yet so necessary 
to the committee in the prosecution of its work to a successful 
result ; and by this is meant the production of such a history of 
the town as shall be satisfactory to its inhabitants, and answer 
the requirements of the students of history who have so long 
demanded it. 

It must, therefore, be constantly borne in mind that this is but 
an incomplete, preliminary work and not a full, elaborate history ; 
and if many things are missing, or stated with too great brevity, 
it is from the nature of the work, and consequently, too much 
should not be expected. It should also be remembered that 
this is put forward with the design to enlist the aid of all who 
have an interest in the town’s good name in doing what they 
can to enable the committee to complete its purpose. 

The town of Weymouth is, next to Plymouth, the oldest 
English settlement in Massachusetts. It has a rich and, in 
some respects, a unique history, interesting alike to its own 
people and to the scholars of the country, and the want of its 
record has been long felt and deplored. Its early settlers were 
numerous, men of character and enterprise, while its emigrants 
soon found their way into other sections, where their descendants 


INTRODUCTION. 3 


are now found in large numbers scattered from the shores of 
the Atlintic to the Pacific, and from the English Provinces on 
the norin to the Mexican Gulf on the south. 

From these multitudes and the friends they have acquired, 
there comes a constant appeal for a history of the mother town, 
an earnest desire for some knowledge more than they now pos- 
sess of the original home of their ancestors in this land. Not 
only from these, but from the scholars who are making the his- 
tory of our country their study, comes the continual inquiry 
for this same information, and it was for the purpose of supply- 
ing this demand that this committee was formed, and it is 
with this end in view that an appeal is made for assistance in 
prosecuting the work. 

In collecting materials and writing a history of this town, 
besides the difficulties that are usually met in such an undertak- 
ing, there are others of a peculiar character, not found, proba- 
bly, in any other locality, very hard to overcome or solve, 
which require the utmost patience and perseverance with the 
nicest discrimination and judgment in their treatment. 

It is highly probable that, previous to 1620, there were tem- 
porary camps upon the territory now Weymouth, formed by the 
fishermen and traders who visited the New England coast to 
carry on with better facilities their traffic with the natives. Here 
seems to have been an important rendezvous for the Indians, and 
there are traces now remaining of several of their settlements 
upon the shores of the bay. Here, also, centre the old Indian 
trails leading from the territories at the south, now covered by 
Plymouth, Bristol, and Norfolk Counties. It was a point 
easily accessible by sea and land, and thus of great value for 
this purpose. 

It was not, however, until the settlement at Plymouth was 
begun that any attempt at actual occupation was made and real 
possession taken. That enterprise, so feeble and of so little 
promise, crystallized into practical purpose the thought that per- 
haps had lain undeveloped in the minds of many; and Thomas 
Weston, a well-known and prominent merchant of London, who 
had been the agent of the Pilgrims in their negotiations with the 
Plymouth Company, and who, on account of some trouble with 
his associates in the business, had broken off his connection 


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with them, undertook the establishment ofa colony upon his own 
account which should, in a better location, combine all the ad- 
vantages of the Plymouth Colony without its drawbacks. That 
company were flying from the persecutions of the powers in 
authority at home, and thus without any governmental support, 
which could not fail of being a serious hindrance. They 
were without strong financial backing, — a most important factor 
in the movement and one of great neces:ity. They brought 
with them their families, which could hardly fail to become a 
source of much inconvenience, to say the least, in the early 
stages of a commercial adventure. 

These evils the new company of Mr. Weston were entirely — 
to avoid; they were to be a trading community pure and sim- 
ple, intent only upon developing the natural resources of the new 
country and of putting money into their own treasury. The 
favor of the government could be secured beyond doubt by the 
promise of a share in the profits ; capital would flow in readily 
at the flattering pictures drawn by the adventurers, and the 
company who were to occupy the post and transact the business 
were such as could be obtained from the surplus population of 
London, men used to peril and hardship and familiar with the 
coast ; and, also, an important consideration, without the incum- 
brance of families. What if they were without trades, with- 
out any special training for the particular business in hand, and 
even destitute of the high principle and purpose that animated 
their Pilgrim neighbors? So much the better for the practical 
business before them. 

In the light of subsequent history it is very easy to see that 
snch an enterprise, conceived in such a spirit, composed of such 
materials, and carried on in such a manner, could have but one 
result, and that, failure. It is, therefore, no surprise, when the 
record tells the sad story of the few months of hardship, suffering, 
and death, and of total failure in every respect. But even this 
was not without benefit to coming and permanent settlers who 
were very soon to occupy the same ground. The benefit of 
the location. was assured, the character of the soil and its 
capabilities better known, and its general advantages of position 
and convenience placed beyond question. 

The failure of Weston’s colony in 1622 and 1623 opened 


INTRODUCTION. 5 


the way for another and more permanent possession. Capt. 
Robert Gorges, himself also an adventurer, the son of Sir 
Fernando Gorges, possessor of a patent, covering, by an elastic 
rendering of its terms, the territory about the bay now known 
as Boston Harbor, recognizing the advantages of its position, 
and believing, also, in the certain success of a trading colony, 
prepared an expedition having the same end in view and upon 
very nearly the same basis, but with these exceptions; the 
men composing it, although from the same region of country, 
were of a much higher grade and with families, thus affording 
foundation for permanence. It had also a religious element 
which the previous company lacked. It brought a chaplain, 
backed by the authority of the Church of England, clothed 
with power sufficient to cover any emergency that would be 
likely to arise. This company had also a promise of official 
support and financial encouragement sufficient to insure its 
success under ordinary circumstances. It had also among its 
members men of standing and education. With these elements 
of prosperity, its prospects were quite flattering; and when, 
in the summer and early autumn of 1623, the company took 
up its residence upon or near the recently deserted site of 
Weston’s settlement, the outlook was a bright one. The loca- 
tion was excellent, the soil amply sufficient for the wants to 
which they intended to put it, the prospects for trade encour- 
aging, and no enemies in the vicinity who were to be feared. 

There was, however, one serious lack, and that was of im- 
portance enough to weaken the political structure and to cause 
in a short time its practical dissolution. It was simply a trad- 
ing colony, and all the elements composing it were intended but 
to promote the acquisition of wealth to its proprietors; the 
real basis of a permanent colony was lacking. There was no 
common bond, save that of money, to bind its members to- 
gether ; and when the hardships of a New England winter came 
upon them, and the profits of the enterprise did not flow in to 
realize their anticipations, there was nothing to sustain their 
courage, which soon gave way, and they were scattered, and 
Wessaguscus remained almost as before. 

The almost consisted in this: a few of the more resolute, and 
possibly desperate, remained behind, retaining possession of the 


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ground and such remnants of political and religious or ecclesi- 
astical power as had survived the wreck. These were added to 
from year to year by the slow process of emigration, the tide 
of which was just beginning to set its feeble course towards 
these shores, but which was destined so to increase that in pro- 
cess of the next twenty years it was numbered by many thou- 
sands. It was some ten or a dozen years before the settlement 
became a power in the colony of sufficient consequence to at- 
tract the notice and authority of its neighbors in Plymouth and 
Boston, and then it had become so strong as to be difficult to 
manage. 

It was then that the development began of one of the prin- 
cipal sources of trouble the historian finds in searching for the 
origin of the town’s history, —the lack of materials and the rea- 
son of their non-appearance. The Weston Colony was wholly 
transient, needing no records and leaving none. The Gorges 
Company was attempted in the interests of the government and 
the church; but its internal and local troubles were such as to 
forbid any regular and systematic record of its proceedings. It 
was naturally inimical to Plymouth, because the former was the 
offspring of official patronage, while the latter was born and 
grew in spite of it. Hence the people of that town made as 
little account of its only neighbor as was possible, and as little 
notice of its matters crept into their records and correspond- 
ence. 

Later on, the additions were of a mixed class, non-con- 
formists predominating, but neither party of sufficient power to 
wholly override the other. Asa natural consequence, nothing 
of a disputed character would become a matter of record, and 
matters passed on without formal notice. When the Massa- 
chusetts Bay Colony came into power with the advent of Gov. 
Winthrop, in 1630, and a weight of governmental authority 
sufficient to subdue all public opposition, a new element was 
introduced into the little settlement of Wessaguscus, the legal 
authority contending with the old spirit of resistance based 
upon the original grant to the Gorges Company upon which 
the settlement was founded. 

The pressing necessities of the colonists incident upon a new 
settlement prevented open contention; but the spirit of oppo- 


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sition was there, and showed itself as opportunity offered. 
This state of things continued for several years, and it was not 
until a score had passed that the mixed company became fairly 
united and settled down into comparative peace. The original 
element long resisted, to the best of its ability, the growing 
power of the government, and hesitated to acknowledge its 
supremacy, hence the tardiness of many of its settlers to become 
freemen of the colony. 

The large addition made to the settlement in 1635, by the 
company of Rev. Joseph Hull, and the rapid influx of other 
new members in the few years immediately succeeding, who 
were not mixed up with the previous, unsettled condition of 
things, instead of serving to allay the troubles, seemed but to 
introduce, for a time at least, new elements of discord which 
rose at times to public disturbance. But the strength of the 
civil power had become so great that these agitations showed 
themselves principally in the church and upon ecclesiastical 
matters. 

The appearance of Rev. Mr. Hull, an actual minister, of Rev. 
Mr. Jenner, of Rev. Mr. Lenthal, in course of a year or two, 
and of Rev. Mr. Newman shortly after, each with a body of ad- 
herents strong enough to make formidable headway, and with 
vitality sufficient to endure for several years, affords ample evi- 
' dence of the actual state of affairs. It will not be a matter of 
surprise that under such circumstances the records of the settle- 
ment should have been overlooked, neither party being willing 
that any statement besides its own should appear; hence, by 
tacit understanding, nothing was committed to writing. 

The same reasons also prevailed in the Plymouth and Bay 
Colonies during the transition period to prevent permanent 
record by them. This settlement was a wedge between the 
two, acknowledging neither, and out of sympathy with both. 
Being without the bounds of the former, that colony could 
claim no jurisdiction, and in the case of the latter, a disputed 
authority rendered intercourse unpleasant. The fact also that 
there was in these Wessaguscus people a strong Episcopalian 
element, served to render them for a time rather aliens than 
citizens. 

With the large body of new settlers about 1640, the gradual 


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withdrawal of the leaders of the various conflicting elements, 
and the evident necessity for a strong government and com- 
bined effort, comparative peace prevailed, and the plantation, 
now town of Weymouth, entered upon a second historical 
era which continued, with but few important interruptions, for 
a century and a half, during which time the agricultural re- 
sources of the town developed themselves, and the foundations 
were laid which have made it, under a transition from agri- 
culture to manufactures, what it is at the present time. 

Another difficulty in the way of compiling a history of the 
town is the total absence for the first hundred and more years 
of all church records. While other towns have these in a more 
or less perfect condition, Weymouth is wholly destitute of this 
important class of historical material. The disturbed and 
conflicting state of affairs during the first twenty years of the 
settlement has already been alluded to, and will fully account 
for the absence of records during that time, and until the set- 
tlement of Rev. Thomas Thacher ; but why there should be none 
for the century following until the settlement of Rev. William 
Smith, it is not so easy to say. 

It was the early custom, and one which is still continued in 
many of the smaller churches, for the minister to act as clerk, 
which, with the important position accorded to him as pastor, 
rendered him the sole custodian of all the records and papers 
of the church. Accountable to no one, he could enter what he 
pleased or nothing at all, and he could do this in either his pub- 
lic capacity or as a private individual. In very many instances 
the latter seems to have been the method, if any, and the 
papers passed among the private property of the ministers, and 
upon his removal or death went into other hands, and the 
church was left destitute. It may well be that this was the 
case with the First Church in Weymouth, and that among the 
papers of the four pastors who preceded Rey. Mr. Smith, could 
they be found, there would appear much of great value to the 
historian of Weymouth. 

Still another difficulty in the way of the town historian is 
the paucity of private manuscripts in the hands of families. 
There are some, perhaps many, of these, and a few of them 
have seen the light, but it is probable that by far the larger and 


INTRODUCTION. 9 


more important portion still remains where they have lain for 
generations, in the attics and forgotten drawers of their owners. 
The demand for them has not-yet been sufficiently loud to make 
their value apparent in the eye of those in whose custody they 
lie. It may be possible in the future to discover and make 
these available; until then the historian must be content with 
the other sources of information at his command. 

During the half-century in which Rev. Mr. Smith was custo- 
dian of the records of the First Church, and following him, the 
near forty years of service in the same position of Rey. Mr. 
Norton, very little indeed appears to have been made a matter 
of record by them excepting cases of discipline, and but few of 
those, while a very imperfect list of the marriages, births, and 
deaths. has been preserved. Nearly the same may be said 
relative to the records of the Second Church in the South 
Parish during the first century (lacking only four years) of its 
existence, when the pastorate and clerkship were in the hands of 
Rev. Messrs. Bayley and Williams. The value of a record of 
passing events for the use of future generations does not seem 
to have been apparent to them, and, in consequence, theirs, upon 
general matters, is exceedingly brief. 

With the death of Mr. Williams and the removal of Mr. 
Norton, the records reached a period within the memory of 
a generation now living, and it is, therefore, possible to repair 
any or many deficiencies that may have occurred in those of 
subsequent years. Thus, some of the principal difficulties that 
lie in the path of the town historian have been indicated, and 
the reasons suggested why such a work as his must necessarily 
be slow and often unsatisfactory. 

It is, on the other hand, a matter of congratulation that the 
town records, embracing a period of more than two hundred 
and forty years, are so full and so well preserved. These are 
the main authority for the general history of the town during 
that time, and they have been carefully examined for the 
present sketch. Probably few towns are more fortunate in this 
particular than Weymouth. The dated record begins in De- 
cember, 1641, although there are a very few items, evidently of 
an earlier date, which are undoubtedly transcribed from other 
sources by a later hand, and a mass of property records which 


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are undated, but which, from external and internal evidence, 
should appear a year or two later. 

These early records contain a vast amount of detail withregard 
to town and parish matters, and were probably put in their pres- 
ent place and form under a town vote at the spring meeting of 
1670. No book or paper in possession of the town at an earlier 
period is to be found at the present time. Until 1651 the 
records seem to have been kept by the townsmen, or selectmen, 
as since called; but at that time a town clerk was chosen, who, 
with his successors, occupied the position until to-day, and their 
many duties have been performed with a fair degree of fulness 
and accuracy. There have been periods when, in consequence 
of war or other prominent disturbances, many omissions oc- 
curred, but this was common in nearly all towns, and Wey- 
mouth is no worse off in this respect than its neighbors. 

Besides the town records there are the old colonial records and 
the governmental records of later date, the archives of the 
State inthe State House at Boston, and the court records; all 
of these are, of great value, and have been freely consulted in 
the preparation of the present work. Then, too, there are the 
papers of contemporaneous writers during the various periods 
covered by the history, and, particularly, the valuable documents 
and reprints of the Massachusetts Historical, and the New Eng- 
land Historic, Genealogical Societies, which are mines of wealth 
to the local as well as to the general historian. These have all 
been freely opened to the use of the compiler, and they have 
been carefully examined, although not so thoroughly as would 
be desirable and necessary for a complete history; but the 
ground has been covered, and it is believed that the more im- 
portant facts connected with the story of Weymouth are here 
presented. ; 

The sketches of the various churches and religious societies 
have been compiled from authentic sources, in most cases from 
their own records, while the facts concerning the industrial and 
financial interests have been carefully gathered from materials 
furnished by officers of the corporations or by persons engaged in 
the various branches of business now carried on in the town, 
and are as complete as can be expected in a work of this limited 
extent. 


INTRODUCTION. i} 


The records of the soldiers engaged in the various wars of the 
country from the Pequod to the Revolution, although not by 
any means full or perfect, are believed to be much more com- 
plete than any heretofore furnished, and have been gathered 
from all the known sources at command, the list of the Revolu- 
tionary soldiers being taken mainly from the records of the 
town treasurer at the time, the volume in which they are found 
having been quite recently brought to the notice of the public. 
Valuable information has also been found among the papers 
of the late Col. Thomas Vinson of South Weymouth, and others 
who participated in that war. 

The first publication of the Weymouth Historical Society 
has been freely drawn upon for matters covered in that vol- 
ume, including the time of the French and Indian, and Revolu- 
tionary wars. This publication also contains many important 
facts concerning local history from the date of the arrival of the 
company of Rev. Joseph Hull in 1635. 

The history of Weymouth during the Rebellion of 1861 to 
1865 is so recent that the main facts are fresh in the memories 
of all; and as a full record of the events of that war in which 
the town has special interest will undoubtedly be published, it 
has not been deemed desirable to furnish in this sketch any- 
thing beyond as complete a list of the men sent into the service 
from the town, with such brief information concerning their 
rank, branch of service, and casualties, as could be obtained in 
the limited time allowed for the preparation of the work. 
These have been obtained principally from the official records of 
the town, and are in the main correct, although there are, doubt- 
less, many errors unavoidable in a list containing so many 
names, —a fact which will be readily admitted by all who have 
had experience in this kind of work. 

One fact remains to be noticed, which is, that the sketch, 
although published by the town committee, is done under the 
auspices of the Weymouth Historical Society, for the reason 
that this association has been for the past five years actively 
engaged in gathering material for this very purpose, much of 
which has been used in the preparation of this work. It has 
also published one work upon local town history, and it has 
been thought wise to make this a second number of that series, 


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the first having passed into all of the prominent libraries of the 
land and become well and favorably known; and further, that 
all of the collections of the society have been placed at the ser- 
vice of the committee at no expense to the town, and its mem- 
bers are citizens deeply interested and actively engaged in all 
matters connected with town history; and also that while this 
plan of publication will be of no loss to the town, it will be of 
great service to the society. 

Here, then, are the reasons for the publication of this work in 
its present form, and a statement of some of the difficulties to 
be met and overcome in its preparation; and also an attempt to 
give to the citizens a glimpse of the wealth of history belonging 
to them, and which they may some day hope to inherit in its 
fulness, if they will do their work in its development. 


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CHAPTER I. 


Geography — Geology — General History — Weston’s Colony — Gorges’s 
Settlement — Hull’s Company — Ecclesiastical Troubles — Pequod 
War — Emigration — Town Government. 


GroGRAPHY.— Weymouth is the most ancient town 
in Norfolk County, and, next to Plymouth, in the Com- 
monwealth, and its original boundaries have been pre- 
served without material change until the present time; 
therefore its lines are the same for any date in its his- 
tory of two hundred and sixty years. The town bor- 
ders upon the shore of Boston Harbor, with its centre 
about thirteen miles southeasterly from Boston, and 
about double that distance northwesterly from Plymouth. 

It is above nine miles in extreme length from the 
Abington line on the south, to the shore of the bay on 
the north, with an average of about seven miles. It lies 
between Braintree and Holbrook on the west, and 
Hingham on the east, with a width, nearly uniform, of 
about two and a half miles. It has a water front on 
Fore and Back Rivers of eight or nine miles, and its 
whole area contains between sixteen and seventeen 
square miles. Of this area a considerable portion is 
covered by ponds. Great Pond, in the southerly part, 
is about a mile and one third in length, and one third 
of a mile in width, with a surface of about two hundred 
and fifty acres. Whitman’s Pond, centrally located, is 
about one third less in extent than Great Pond, being 


14 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


nearly as long, but of very irregular form. Whortle- 
berry Pond, a little south of Whitman’s, is small, nearly 
circular, and about forty rods in diameter. There are 
but two streams of any importance, — “ Mill River,” the 
outlet to Great Pond, running into Back River, a dis- 
tance by its course, in which it passes through Whit- 
man’s Pond, of five or six miles, and “Old Swamp 
River,” rising in Hingham and flowing into Whitman’s 
Pond, about two and one half or three miles in length. 
These rivers have several very fine water privileges, one 
of which, that of the Hast Weymouth Iron Company, has 
been thought one of the best in the State. There are 
but two hills of noticeable prominence in the town, — 
Great Hill, on the shore of the bay, and King Oak Hill, 
about two miles farther south.' From the summits of 
both are to be seen some of the finest views in the 
State. There are two inlets making in from the 
bay, navigable for vessels of considerable size, — Fore 
River on the north and west, four or five miles in length, 
and Back River on the northeast, three or four miles 
long. The extreme northeasterly portion of the town 
is a long and narrow neck of land extending into the 
bay for a mile and a half or more, while beyond this, to 
the north, about eighty rods away, lies Grape Island, 
separated only by the narrow mouth of Back River, and 
is of an oblong shape, about half a mile in length and 
sixty rods in width, while about two hundred rods far- 


1 These two hills are regularly formed mounds, easily ascended, and 
have been from the beginning of English occupation, favorite locations, 
and have been under cultivation to their summits during the whole period 
since that time. Great Hill, early known as Smith’s Hill, situated on the 
verge of the bay in the extreme north, was a landmark to the early 
yoyagers about Massachusetts Bay, and has since served the same useful 
purpose to their successors. There was formerly a road leading to its 
summit. King Oak Hill has not so sharp an elevation, is situated farther 
inland, and was evidently used by the emigrants as garden spots, as it was 
divided into small lots. It overlooks the country for along distance in- 
land, while on the east the view is bounded only by the ocean. 


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ther to the north, in the bay, lies another small island, 
called Sheep Island.’ Both of these belong to Wey- 
mouth, are wholly destitute of trees, and used only for 
pasturage. 

Almost the whole of the south part of the town is an 
elevated plateau, with a light sandy or gravelly soil, 
capable, with good tillage, of producing fair crops. 
The surface from this plain commences to fall away 
with gentle undulations until it reaches the sea. The 
northern portion has always enjoyed the reputation of 
containing the best land for cultivation, while only a 
comparatively small portion of the whole area is unfit 
for agricultural purposes in consequence of swamp, 
ledge, or barrenness. Formerly farming was the princi- 
pal industry, and the larger portion of the population 
gained their livelihood from the produce of the soil; 
but during the present century manufactures have in- 
creased to such an extent as almost to exterminate the 
former. On Fore and Back Rivers a large amount of 
business is done in lumber and coal, while the Old 
Colony and South Shore Railroads bring in great quan- 
tities of grain, flour, and other necessaries. 

For the first hundred years the town constituted one 
precinct, but in 1728 it was divided into two, the south 
being somewhat the larger. Quite recently, for practi- 
cal and convenient purposes, it has been divided into 
five wards, — two at the south, one at the east, one at 
the Landing, and one at the north. Until 1793, Wey- 
mouth constituted a part of Suffolk County, but in that 
year Norfolk County was established and Weymouth 
made a part of it. It has four post-offices, one in each 


' The following from the town record was copied from the General 
Court records: ‘* A General Court holden at Boston the 7th day of 
10th mo. A. D. 1636. 

‘*Round Island and Grape Island are granted to the Towne of 
Weymouth.”’ 


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of the principal villages, with telegraphic and telephone 
accommodations along the lines of the Old Colony and. 
South Shore Railroads, which cross the town at differ- 
ent points. 


GroLoey.' — Weymouth, geologically, is avery an- 
cient town. The solid rock formations date far back in 
the primitive ages, and its physical history, could it be 
told in detail, would be extremely interesting. The rock 
underlying a large portion of the town is closely allied 
to the famous granite beds of its near neighbor, Quincy, 
but. is less perfectly crystallized. This bed rock is 
everywhere pierced by veins of amygdaloid trap, often 
many feet in width. Belonging to a later period are 
beds of dark slate or shale, extending across the north- 
erly part of the town from Braintree to Hingham, and 
cropping out upon the surface in huge seams at frequent 
intervals. These slates contain large quantities of iron 
pyrites, and are cut by quartz veins in which are found 
fine crystals. There is also found in North Weymouth 
another peculiar purplish slate which is full of cavities 
that seem once to have been filled with organic matter. 

After the very early period in which these rocks were 
formed, there comes a great gap in the record of this 
earth history as written by the pen of nature, until the 
glacial or ice period is reached, of which Weymouth 
bears abundant and very marked testimony. The un- 
covered ledges are in many places very plainly scarred 
with the parallel groovings or striw, and the surface is 
covered with hills of gravel and sand, or strewn with 
bowlders of great variety and of all sizes up to that of 
an ordinary dwelling-house. 

* The geological portion of the sketch was furnished by Rev. George 
Wallace Shaw, formerly principal of the North High School, Weymouth, 
now Congregationalist minister in Athol, Dakota, probably the best ac- 


quainted of any one with the subject, having given it a great deal of 
attention. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. ay 


In various parts of the town, particularly in the 
north, bordering upon Back River, are unusually fine 
examples of the sharp, linea hills, called horsebacks or 
kames, and glacial plains, both formed by the ice as it 
melted or retreated towards the pole. 

The hilly, rolling surface of Weymouth, especially in 
the northerly portion, is due partly to the upturned 
ledges of granite, and partly to these hills of glacial 
gravel. But little soil is left upon the rocky, gravelly 
hills, most of the vegetable débris having been washed 
into the swamps and peat-bogs. 


GENERAL Hisrory.— The history of the town of 
Weymouth covers a period of two hundred and sixty- 
one years, and is no less fruitful in important and _ stir- 
ring events than that of any of its contemporaries. The 
early voyagers were attracted to it by its beautiful and 
protected situation, shielded from the ocean by the beach 
and peninsula of Nantasket, and from the Indians by its 
position extending far into the bay, between the two 
rivers. Its central location made it also easy of access 
both by water and land from a large reach of territory, 
thus rendering it a favorable point for trade with the 
natives. The wandering fishermen and traders, who 
were ranging the New England coast during the early 
years of the seventeenth century, soon discovered its 
value and made it a point of rendezvous. From it they 
could easily slip out upon the ocean, and from it they 
could make such excursions upon the land as were 
necessary in accomplishing their purposes. 

The great companies were then looking for the men 
and the places by whom and where they could carry out 
their grand schemes, accumulate the fortunes and seize 
the honors they foresaw already within their grasp; and, 
not more scrupulous than some of their modern succes- 
sors, they were not always as careful as to the means 

2 


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by which their purposes were to be accomplished as 
might be desired. Land was here in abundance, and its 
rightful owners, if there were any, were few, ignorant, 
and of no fixed abode. The geography of the coast was 
not well understood; and it easily happened that con- 
flicts of jurisdiction arose between the various claimants 
that caused, in after-times, no little vexation and trou- 
ble. Ifthe various grants came in conflict, the bounda- 
ries were not well defined, and a fine position near the 
border, once in possession, might perhaps be held against 
future comers. It was a great distance from the courts 
that held jurisdiction, and influences might be brought 
to bear even upon those high in authority that would 
render the result of a trial anything but certain. Justice 
was tardy, her eyes liable to partial blindness, and her 
hand held the scales in uncertain poise. Thus the posi- 
tion of things prepared the way for a train of events in- 
volving a great deal of disturbance and perplexity, and 
the result was usually in favor of those holding the 
most money and home influence. 

Such was the condition of affairs during the first 
quarter of the seventeenth century. The Virginia Com- 
pany, whose patent covered the southern portion of the 
English possessions in America, established at James- 
town, Va., in 1607, a colony which commenced a long 
and severe struggle for existence. In 1614 the Dutch 
began a settlement on Manhattan Island, at the mouth 
of the Hudson,—an entering wedge between the two 
portions of the continent claimed by England, — and 
seven years later, at the close of the year 1620, the 
Plymouth Company, after much discussion and_ bar- 
gaining, invited the Pilgrims (then temporarily living 
in Leyden, Holland), to embark for the coast of New 
England, and the colony located at Plymouth, where the 
resolute members of that community commenced their 
hand-to-hand conflict with the terrible circumstances 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 19 


against them, and which proved almost too great for 
their strength. 


Tur Weston Cotony.'— Thus it was that Mr. 
Thomas Weston, a merchant of London, who had much 
to do with the Pilgrims in their negotiations with the 
Plymouth Company, and with an exalted opinion of the 
value and future prosperity of the country, conceived 
the idea of an independent enterprise of similar character, 
which should unite in itself all the elements of success 
without cumbering itself with the discouragements that 
surrounded the other settlement. They would establish 
a trading post by men without families which should af- 
terwards grow up into a powerful state. Consequently 
in August, 1622, a company of about sixty able-bodied 
men, selected — not so much for their special fitness for 
the work proposed as for their willingness to undertake 
it—from the migratory population of London, landed 
from the “Charity” and “Swan,” two small vessels 
chartered for the purpose, upon the shore of Wessagus- 
cus, about twenty-five miles north of Plymouth, inside of 
the entrance of a capacious bay, afterwards known as 
Boston Harbor. The spot has not been positively iden- 
tified, but tradition points to the northern shore of 
Phillips Creek, a small inlet of Fore River (or Monati- 
quot), about three or four miles from its entrance ito 
the bay,—a well-protected, well-wooded and watered 


' For further details of the first companies that came to Weymouth, the 
reader is referred to the address of Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Esq., 
delivered at the 250th anniversary of the settlement of Weymouth, cele- 
brated July 4, 1874, and the authorities quoted in it. Also to his article 
read before the Massachusetts Historical Society and published in its 
papers, entitled ‘‘ Early Planters about Massachusetts Buay,’’ ‘‘ Win- 
slow’s Gocd Newes,”’ ‘‘ Young’s Chronicles of the Pilgrims,” ‘* Phinehas 
Pratt’s Narrative,’? ‘‘Goyv. Bradford’s History,’’‘ ‘ Levett’s Voyage,” 
‘¢ Morton’s New English Canaan,’’ ‘‘ Force’s Historical Tracts,” and 
other easily accessible authorities. 


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spot, and one that promised well for the business pro- 
posed. 

As might have been expected, this company, with no 
settled habits of industry and no extraordinary induce- 
ments to form them now, not well disposed towards the 
hard labor and deprivations necessary to the formation 
of a settlement in a new and rugged country, and with- 
out a competent head, soon became disgusted with their 
enterprise, neglected their means of livelihood, broke 
over the comparatively friendly relations upon. which 
they had subsisted with the natives, and were soon in 
great distress. The severity of the winter, and their 
neglect to make provisions for it, in a short time brought 
them to the point of starvation. Their treatment of 
their savage neighbors rendered them in the utmost de- 
eree distrustful and timid. In their want of food they 
sent to their neighbors at Plymouth for supplies, but 
they, nearly as badly off, could not help them; thus 
the fish of the sea, the shell-fish of the beaches, and the 
nuts and fruits of the forest, became their sole food. In 
their great fear of the Indians they applied to Plymouth 
for assistance, and that colony sent up Capt. Miles 
Standish with a file of men, who speedily established 
order in the death of the principal aggressors. Mean- 
while, fully satisfied with their brief.experiment of colo- 
nial life, the Weston Colony disbanded, going in differ- 
ent directions, and at the opening of the summer of 1623 
not one was left upon the spot to claim ownership in the 
name of the ill-fated company.’ 

Ten of the colony died of famine, two had been killed 


1 This company was under the leadership of Richard Greene, a brother- 
in-law of Mr. Weston, who, dying, was succeeded by John Sanders. 
There were also in this company a lawyer named Salisbury, and the after- 
wards notorious Thomas Morton, of Merry Mount. The whole company 
consisted of about sixty men, gathered from London and vicinity. 
— Adams's Address. 


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and one wounded by the savages in their various en- 
counters, and at the close of the spring, after the visit 
of Capt. Standish, three of their number, the last of the 
company, were cruelly tortured to death by their Indian 
neighbors with whom they had sought refuge.’ After the 
lapse of more than two and a half centuries, it may be 
possible to form a more favorable estimate of the charac- 
ter of the men who composed this colony than that 
which has been usually accredited to them. That they 
were not the utterly depraved set they have been de- 
scribed is very evident. In their intercourse with the 
Plymouth people they certainly showed a disposition to 
act fairly. In an expedition made with them under con- 
tract to trade with the Indians to the south, in the region 
of Cape Cod, Mr. Weston’s people took their full share 
of the labor and privation, acting with energy and hon- 
orably discharging all their obligations.” Even their 
associates in this enterprise offer no complaints in this 
respect. When one of their number had shown himself 
a notorious thief, and had committed serious depreda- 
tions upon their Indian neighbors, he was given up at 
their complaint, and, as the sufferers declined to judge 
the culprit, the colonists proceeded to execute summary 
justice by hanging him. It may be said that this act 
was the result of fear, but it is hardly fair to ascribe a 
dishonorable motive when a better one appears in the 
exhibition of it. They had not that high moral purpose, 
neither were they actutated by that strong religious faith, 
that governed their Pilgrim contemporaries. They 
were not flying from persecution in their own land to 
seek a home for themselves and their families, where 
they could enjoy comparative freedom of conscience 


1 Phinehas Pratt’s narrative in Massachusetts Historical Society’s 
Collection, Ser. 4, Vol. IV. 

2Gov. E. Winslow's Relation, Massachusetts Historical Society’s 
Collection, Ser. 4, Vol. LY. 


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and life, at the expense of most of life’s comforts. 
They were men with no families, who undertook the 
enterprise to earn a living, and, it may be, make a 
fortune with which to return home. More than this, 
they were under no competent leadership, Mr. Weston 
remaining behind, and his agent intrusted with the 
charge of the colony during its early days dying in a 
short time. Had they come with families dependent 
upon them, with the result resting upon their own exer- 
tions, the issue might have been different. Their faults 
seem to have come from the want of proper training 
with its consequent improvidence, and the lack of a 
sufficient motive. 


GorGeEs’s SETTLEMENT.— The natural attractions of 
Wessaguscus did not suffer it to remain long unoccu- 
pied, for in the autumn of the same year, 1623,’ or in 
the late summer, it is not quite certain which, Capt. 
Robert Gorges, son of Sir Fernando Gorges, acting un- 
der a charter from the Plymouth Company, the Council of 
New England, came with a company consisting, in part, 
at least, of families and of character superior to that of 
those who had preceded them, with the evident inten- 
tion of forming a permanent settlement. They landed 
upon the northern part of the town, probably near or 
upon the spot chosen by the Weston people the year 
before, thinking, undoubtedly, that this was covered by 
the grant which was so indefinitely described as to be 
easily susceptible of misconstruction. This gave them 
ten miles of the coast on the northeast side of Massa- 
chusetts Bay and extending thirty miles inland. They 
chose their ten miles evidently to include the entrance to 


1 Mr. Adams says about the middle of September. In Sir Fernando 
Gorges’s description of New England _ he says, ‘‘ my son arrived [at Wes- 
saguscus | about the beginning of August, 16235.’’ — Massachusetts Histor- 
ical Collection, Ser. 8, Vol. VI. p. 74. 


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Boston Harbor; and this mistake, if mistake it were, 
was the cause of much trouble in the future. 

The leader of this company is well known in history, 
but of the men who composed it little has been recorded; 
even their number is not known, the names of very few 
being mentioned, and those with a great deal of un- 
certainty.’ 

It is, however, a well-ascertained fact that the colony 
was projected to favor the establishment of the govern- 
ment more firmly on the New England shore, and to pre- 
pare a foundation upon which the Episcopacy might rear 
its future prosperity, and also as an offset to the threat- 
ened opposition that might possibly arise from the then 
insignificant attempt at Plymouth. The project, there- 
fore, carried upon its face the evidence of ministerial and 
ecclesiastical favor; hence it did not meet with much 
assistance from the Pilgrims, from whom there have 
come not the most favorable reports. To further the 
authority of the Church and to form a legal basis of 
future action, the colony brought a regular chaplain or 
clergyman of the Church of England, in the person of 
Rev. William Morrell, a man of education and stand- 
ing, of excellent character, with power sufficient for the 
purpose intrusted to his care, the establishment of the 
claims of the Church in the wilderness, and also to act 
as its bishop when the enterprise should develop suffi- 
ciently to need the services of such an officer. 

The plan of the colony was projected upon a scale of 
magnificent proportions and with machinery sufficient 
to conduct the affairs of an empire. Capt. Gorges was 
named as governor-general, with a general oversight 
of the company’s officers in America, and authority by 
commission to carry out his plans. Associated with 
him in the government were Capt. Francis West, ad- 


1 See ‘‘ Early Planters about Massachusetts Bay,’’? by C. F. Adams, 
Jr., Esq. 


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miral, Christopher Levet, Esq., perhaps the chief judi- 
cial officer, and such others as the governor-general 
chose to appoint, any two of whom, with himself, were 
empowered to transact any business necessary for the 
government of the colony. ‘The governor of Plymouth, 
for the time being, was constituted a member of the 
government, and immediately upon the arrival of the 
company, in August or September, Goy. Bradford was 
notified of the fact, and at once made his arrange- 
ments to make the new-comers a call; but before 
this could be effected, the governor-general, while on 
a tour of inspection over his extended domains, was 
forced by stress of weather into Plymouth, where he re- 
mained a few days, and then returned overland to Wes- 
saguscus. Very soon, however, he became satisfied with 
his experience as a ruler in the new settlement and 
returned to England with a considerable portion of his 
company; others of the party went to Virginia, and 
some to Plymouth, while some remained as the nucleus 
of the future settlement. Mr. Morrell appears to have 
remained here for perhaps a year and a half, and de- 
spairing of an accomplishment of his purpose in coming 
hither, went to Plymouth and took passage for Eng- 
land.’ 

In the course of the year 1624, there came in other 
settlers from Weymouth, England, bringing with them 
a non-conformist minister by the name of Barnard, who 
remained with them and died there. The records of 
this time are so bare and scanty that nothing more than 
the fact of this addition is known. From this time un- 
til the arrival of Gov. Winthrop at Shawmut, there 
is more or less mention of the settlement at Wessagus- 
cus, and a continual though small accession to its mem- 
bers. The most notorious event of this period was the 


1 Bradford and Hazard. 


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arrest there, in 1628, of Thomas Morton, of Merry Mount, 
as Mount Wollaston was then called, by Capt. Miles 
Standish, by the order of the Plymouth authorities, 
taken to that town, and sent to England.’ In 1630 and 
the following years, the settlement was recognized as a 
part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and taxed for 
its support.?, In 1632, Gov. Winthrop, with a party of 
friends, visited Plymouth, by vessel to Wessaguscus or 
Wessagusset (it was called by either name), thence over- 
land. On their way in going and returning they were 
generously entertained by the people of that place.’ 
During that year a tax was ordered by the Court, five 
pounds of which was levied on Wessaguscus, eight on 
Boston, and four pounds ten shillings on Salem, showing 
the relative importance of the towns.* In 1633 it was 
spoken of as a small village.© In 1654 it was ordered 
to pay the charges incurred in taking care of Thomas 
Lane, a servant of John Burslyn (Bursley), of that set- 
tlement, who had fallen sick in Dorchester.® 


Hurt Company. — In 1635 the place came into gen- 
eral notice and took a prominent position among the 
towns composing the Massachusetts Bay Colony. On 
the 8th of July, of that year, the General Court passed 
an order permitting Rev. Joseph Hull, with twenty-one 
families, consisting of about one hundred persons, to 
settle at Wessaguscus, —the largest addition at any one 
time probably in the history of the town. These set- 
tlers came from Weymouth, England, and belonged to 


1 Bradford’s Letter Book, Massachusetts Historical Collection, Ser. 1, 
Vol. III. p. 61; Morton’s New English Canaan. 

2 Massachusetts Colonial Records, Sept. 28, 1630; also for the following 
years. 

8 Savage’s Winthrop, Vol. I. p. 192. 

4 Massachusetts Colonial Records, Feb. 3, 1631-2. 

6 Wood’s New England Prospect; Young’s Chronicles, p. 394. 

6 Massachusetts Colonial Records. 


‘ 


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the county of Dorset and its immediate neighborhood.’ 
They were a class of people who soon became promi- 
nent, and whose families, many of them, retain their posi- 
tion at the present day. Their minister, Rev. Joseph 
Hull, became for a time the minister of the town. On 
the 2d of September, the town was erected into a plan- 
tation, equivalent, probably, to an act of incorporation, 
and the name changed to Weymouth, which it has since 
retained.? On the following day it was ordered to send 
a deputy to the General Court, to which office Wil- 
liam Reade, John Bursley, and John Upham were 
elected, these three being sent as an accommodation to 
three strong, opposing elements then existing in the 
town, consisting, probably, of those who remained of the 
Gorges Company and friends who followed them, those 
who came in from other towns in the colony with an in- 
terest centring in the capital, and a third, embracing 
those who came with Rev. Joseph Hull and their sym- 
pathizers; John Bursley representing the first, Wil- 
liam Reade the second, and John Upham the third. The 
court influence predominating, Mr. Reade was retained 
and the others were permitted to retire. During the years 
1635 and 1636, commissioners were appointed to estab- 
lish the bounds between Mount Wollaston and Wey- 
mouth, of which Fore River and the Smelt Brook 
formed a part, thence by a straight line running south 
a little westerly, until it reached the line of Plymouth 
Colony; also, between Weymouth and Bare Cove, after- 
wards Hingham, of which line Back River and a creek 
called Fresh River formed a part, thence on a line 
nearly parallel with the western boundary to the Plym- 
outh Colony line. These bounds, which were the more 
ancient ones re-established, have remained to the present 
time with little if any change.’ 
1See Appendix A. 


2 Massachusetts General Court Records, 1635. 
8 Massachusetts General Court Records; 1635. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 27 


Ferries had already been erected, connecting the town 
with its neighbors on either hand, and bridges were pro- 
jected for the better accommodation of traffic and travel. 
Roads were built towards Boston, and mills erected upon 
the streams. A quarterly court was established, to be 
held in Boston, to which Roxbury, Dorchester, Wey- 
mouth, and Hingham belonged; and for the better pro- 
tection of the various towns in the colony from the 
Indians, it was ordered by the General Court that no 
dwelling-house should be built more than half a mile 
from the meeting-house.’ It appears, however, that the 
latter order was never enforced, or soon became a dead 
letter, for at this time the people of Weymouth were 
scattered over a territory from two to three miles in ex- 
tent. The larger part of the population lived in North 
Weymouth, commonly known as “ Old Spain,” extend- 
ing from the shore of the bay to Burying Hill, more than 
a mile, while there were quite a number of plantations 
extending south and east over King Oak Hill as far as 
Fresh Pond, now Whitman’s, in Hast Weymouth. 

Where the first meeting-house was built is unknown, _ 
but tradition says in Old Spain, probably near what is 
now the centre of the village; but this did not long re- 
main, giving place to amore commodious building which 
stood upon Burying Hill, near where North Street now 
passes through it. This remained until 1682, when a 
third was erected upon the spot now occupied by the 
meeting-house of the First Parish. The houses of the 
inhabitants were mostly rude structures built of logs, and 
thatched with the coarse grass found at the head of the 
beaches above the salt water, which was carefully pre- 
served for the purpose by order of the town.” In 1612, 
April 26, the Indian title to the town was extinguished 
by purchase. The original deed is not to be found, but a 


1 Massachusetts General Court Records, 1635. 
2 Weymouth Town Records, 1649. 


28 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


copy stands upon the records of the Suffolk County 
registry of deeds, and is a curious specimen of the sharp 
trading which the early fathers allowed themselves to 
indulge in when dealing with the native owners. It 
was signed by Wampetuck, alias Josias Webecowett, 
Nateaunt, and Nahowton, sachems.! 


Cuurcu TROUBLES. — During the early years of the 
town it was very much disturbed by internal dissensions 
in the church. From 1635, on the arrival of Rev. 
Joseph Hull and his company, until 1644, upon the set- 
tlement of Rev. Thomas Thacher, there was almost con- 
stant tumult and disturbance, sometimes so serious as 
to draw the attention of the General Court. About the 
years 1637 and 1638 there were no less than four claim- 
ants for the Weymouth pulpit, each with a strong party 
at his command; the old Gorges settlers, the later 
comers from Dorchester, Boston and vicinity, and the 
recent Hull arrivals, while the fourth, coming with a 
view of harmonizing the differences, only added 
another element to the discord. The Episcopal ele- 
ment was still strong, but apparently not enough so 
to propose a candidate of its own views; the Puritan 
party, which sustained Rev. Thomas Jenner; the 1635 
settlers, under the leadership of Rev. Joseph Hull, an 
independent, with Episcopalian antecedents; and a 
strong party who had invited Rev. Robert Lenthal, who 
was suspected of favoring the views of Mrs. Hutchin- 
son. Rey. Samuel Newman was summoned to heal the 
breach, but he found the trouble too serious for his 
powers. The departure of all these contestants, and 
the settlement of Rev. Thomas Thacher, appeared to 
resolve the difficulty. 

‘This copy of the Indian deed of Weymouth is taken from the Suf- 
folk deeds, and is also found upon the Weymouth Town Records. (See 


Appendix B.) 
2 See Ecclesiastical History, in Chapter X. of this sketch. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 29 


In December, 1636, the General Court ceded to 
Weymouth, Grape Island and Round Island, the only 
additions ever made to its territory... During the 
eight years from the arrival of Rev. Joseph Hull, in 
1635, to the departure of Rey. Samuel Newman, in 
1643, Weymouth had gained largely in population and 
had become one of the most important towns in the 
colony. The records of the latter year, previous to 
the departure of Rev. Mr. Newman to Rehoboth with 
a large colony, estimated by some as high as forty fam- 
ilies, contained the names of more than one hundred 
and thirty land-owners, representing, most of them, 
heads of families. These records are imperfect, and 
probably do not represent by many the whole number.? 
It is at this time that the regular records of the town 
commence, from which date they are comparatively 
good, probably as full as the average of the town 
records of the colony. Earlier than this the peculiar 
circumstances surrounding the settlement conspired to 
envelop the history in much obscurity. The natural 
jealousy of the Pilgrims against the adherents of the 
Established Church, from which they had suffered so 
much, prevented them from making any fuller record 
than was absolutely necessary of their neighbors at 
Wessaguscus; and later, the Puritans at Boston were 
in the same condition and no better disposed, although 
on their own territory and under their own jurisdic- 
tion; while still later, the disturbances produced by the 
conflicting elements in its own midst prevented the 
preservation of records that would be of inestimable 
value at the present time. 


Prquop War.— The Indians upon the territory of 
the town were never numerous from the first visits of the 


1 Massachusetts General Court Records; Weymouth Town Records, 
2 See Appendix C, 


30 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


whites to its shores, and this was one reason for its 
selection as a favorable location for a settlement; yet, 
notwithstanding its retired position, it was not without 
its share of damage from its savage enemies in other 
parts of the province, and it was always called upon for 
its quota of men and taxed for its share of the expense. 
As early as 1637, of the one hundred and sixty men 
called for to serve against the Pequods, five were to 
come from Weymouth;' and from this time until the 
close of the King Philip war, in 1676, the town was 
always a contributor in men and money to sustain the 
various expeditions sent against the Indians. From 
that time the immediate danger was not felt, yet her 
soldiers were found upon the bloody fields of New 
York and Canada, fighting for the preservation of their 
homes, although so far away. 


Emiaration.—tThe first large colony sent out from 
Weymouth was that under the charge of Rev. Samuel 
Newman, to Rehoboth, and numbered, by the best ac- 
counts, about forty families.” From that time, but usually 
in small companies, often but a single family, the tide 
flowed away, and the town saw its population slowly 
diminish by the constant drain upon it to supply the 
calls of the frontier. First Maine, New Hampshire, 
Vermont, and the western part of this State, Rhode 
Island, and Connecticut made large demands. ‘Then 
followed the calls from New York and the other Mid- 
dle States, and still later the vast West, which have all 
been abundantly answered, until not a State in the 
Union, and hardly a county or town, but has one or 
more of the sons of Weymouth to represent it. This 
condition of things could not fail to be seriously felt, 
and the town was severely crippled by it, so much so 


1 Massachusetts General Court Records, Vol. I. pp. 174-177. 
2 See Bliss’s History of Rehoboth. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 31 


that from 1643, for one hundred and fifty years, the 
gain was hardly perceptible, sometimes a period of gain 
to be more than offset by a corresponding period of 
loss, while the actual increase for the whole time was 
so small as to be hardly appreciable. If the estimate 
for 1643 of at least one hundred and fifty families be 
correct, and an average of six to the family a fair 
allowance, a population of nine hundred at that time 
against fourteen hundred, the estimate for 1776, will 
show the truth of this statement. 


Town GoverRNMENT.— Like that of nearly all of 
the early settlements, the government of the town was 
of a very simple pattern. Town meetings were called 
as necessity demanded, at irregular intervals; and 
townsmen, afterwards known as selectmen, chosen at 
times and in number most convenient. The officers 
seem to have been their own recorders, since no regu- 
lar clerk appears for twenty or thirty years. Meetings 
were notified upon training or lecture days by public 
call, and such business was transacted as the time 
demanded.’ When and how the first land grants 
were made is not known, but probably upon the earli- 
est settlement the lands were divided as the needs of 
the settlers appeared; that remaining was held in com- 
mon. A large portion of the north part of the town 
was occupied, and as early as 1636 there is record of a 
division of great lots at the lower end of Fresh 


1 The records of the town meeting held Nov. 26, 1651, contain, quite 
in detail, the manner in which the town adapted itself to its changed cir- 
cumstances, and adopted by-laws and regulations for its government which 
proved sufficient for its wants for more than a hundred and fifty years. 
Until this time there were only such officers elected and such business 
transacted as the circumstances of the occasion demanded; no clerk or 
assessors appear before this time; now these officers were recognized as 
apart of the town government, and the local business of the town as- 
sumed a regular and established form. 


32 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


(Whitman’s) Pond, some two or three miles from the 
shore of the bay. 

In 1643 a partial record of the then property own- 
ers was made which has been preserved.1 Most of 
the early records are filled with regulations respect- 
ing cattle, cutting of timber, and such public mat- 
ters as seem to be called for. The earliest officers, 
after townsmen, named upon the records, are fence- 
viewers, and the number and prominence of the men 
appointed to this position show it to have been at least 
no sinecure. There was the strictest scrutiny into the 
character and purpose of those who came among them. 
As early as 1646 a vote was passed forbidding any 
inhabitant from taking as an inmate any stranger with- 
out giving the town an indemnity bond against damage, 
under a penalty of a fine of five shillings per week; nor 
could he sell or let to any such person house or land, 
without having first tendered the same to the town at a 
training, lecture, or other public meeting.’ 

During those early days frequent regulations were 
made for the preservation of pine and cedar, indicating 
a waste of that material. In 1648, Widow Hillard was 
required to give the town security against harm from 
the charges of her children. At the first settlement, the 
town set apart the shore land between high and low 
water marks for thatching purposes, thatch being at 
that time the most important material for roofing pur- 
poses, and there appeared to be a necessity to provide 
for its preservation; and when the General Court after- 
wards ordered that all lands to low-water mark should 
belong to the proprietors of the adjoining land, this 
regulation of the town was respected, and an exception 
made in its favor.? 

The highways were a matter of prime importance at 


1 See Appendix C. 2 Town Records. ®’ Town Records. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 33 


an early date, and as far back as 1649 the inhabitants 
were required to work them at the call of the “way 
warden,” under penalty. In 1650-1, March 1, a vote 
was passed requiring the officers to post notices of the 
assessment of rates, and all persons liable to taxation 
were required to bring in lists of polls and property 
under penalty. March 10, 1651, the town voted to fine 
all such as should be tardy at town meeting's six pence 
for each hour the meeting continued. The rates were 
to be laid so that the town bills could be promptly paid, 
particularly Capt. Perkins’s ten pounds for six months’ 
schooling, which is the first notice upon the record in 
relation to school matters.’ 

About this time the town business had accumulated to 
such a degree that it became necessary to adopt more 
systematic measures in relation to its conduct. 

Regular meetings were to be held on the first Monday 
in March and the last Monday of November, for the 
choice of officers and general business, while unimpor- 
tant matters could be regulated on lecture days without 
notice; and all military affairs were to be decided upon 
trainmg days. ‘The townsmen were also required to 
make report of the action taken at their meetings. 
The first annual town meeting was held Nov. 26, 1651, 
for the choice of town officers, and the townsmen are 
now for the first time called ‘‘selectmen,” a title which 
they have since retained. The powers of these officers 
are given upon the record with minute detail, and the 
business of the town seems to have been settled upon in 
nearly the same form that it bears at present. 

The necessity of a town clerk was apparent, and 
Deacon John Rogers was chosen “ recorder,” his special 
duty being that of clerk to the selectmen. At this time 
there is a record made of those entitled to the great lots 


1 Town Records. 


34 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


near Whitman’s Pond, numbering about sixty persons. 
Jan. 24, 1652-3, two thousand acres were set apart as 
town commons, running across the town from Braintree 
to Hingham, and near the centre from north to south; 
at the same time Thomas Dyer was chosen to record 
births, deaths, and marriages, and William Torrey re- 
corder of deeds, etc. The town records seem at this time 
to have been in two divisions, each with its clerk, one for 
the personal and the other for the general record. In 
1663 there is a record of the names, number of lot 
and acres, of each person who was allotted land in the 
first and second divisions, beginning on Braintree 
line." (See Appendix C.) 

For many years the records are mainly taken up with 
domestic matters, regulations for cattle, running boun- 
dary lines with other and adjacent towns and between 
different estates, locating and improving the highways, 
and managing the town commons, which was a matter 
of no small moment in those days. The sexton’s duties 
were prescribed and looked after, and all parish matters, 
neither few nor small, were transacted by the town in 
public meeting, since the town and precinct were one. 

As early as 1667 there was found a necessity to en- 
large the capacity of the meeting-house, the seating 
showing a gradual increase in population. At the same 
time there was an increased call upon the town clerk in 
the matter of recording grants, and for copying, so 
large as to demand compensation, which was voted at 
the rate of one shilling for grants, six pence for a copy, 
and three shillings four pence for recording the assess- 
ors’ rates.” 

In 1668, Lieut. Holbrook was appointed with full 
powers to answer the “presentment” of the General 
Court in relation to the highways. | 


1 Town Records. 2 Town Records. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. aa 


At the March meeting, 1669-70, a committee was 
chosen to procure a “new town book,” upon which all 
of the affairs of the town should be correctly kept, and 
it is not at all unlikely that the oldest book of records 
now in possession of the town is the identical book pur- 
chased at this time, since in it are references to older 
books not now to be found.’ 


1 Town Records. 


36 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


CHAPTER II. 


King Philip War— Company of Horse —Town Affairs — Sir Edmund 
Andros — Military Company — Canadian Expedition — Local Mat- 
ters — Town Boundaries — New Precinct — Dr. White — Town Regu- 
lations — Parsonage Property — Pigwacket Indians — Town Commons 
— Throat Distemper — French and Indian Wars — French Neutrals 
— Dr. Tufts — Highways — South Precinct. 


Kine Pamre War. — During the period from 
1651 to 1675 the town had been steadily growing in 
population and wealth, and laying the foundations of 
future prosperity, unconscious of the dark days before 
it. The people were upon the shore of the bay, far 
removed from danger of savage beasts or men; but 
trouble was gathering, and the ill-feeling between the 
white settlers and the Indians on the southern borders 
had risen to that point that it needed but an event 
of small importance in itself to bring about an outburst 
of hostilities. Such an event happened in the mur- 
der of a white man by an Indian, and the execution of 
the offender. This was an opportunity too favorable to 
be resisted by the young braves, and the attack upon 
Swanzey, June 24, 1675, was the result. 

Upon this practical declaration of war, sides were at 
once taken, the savages eagerly thirsting to obtain their 
long accumulation of revenge, while the colonies of 
Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay joined hands for 
mutual aid and defence. ‘Troops were quickly mus- 
tered and took the field in hope of a speedy crushing of 
their terrible foe. 

But they reckoned without their host. Philip of 
Pokanoket was no ordinary opponent, and the events of 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. oe 


the following two years were such a record of horror as 
the settlements had never before seen and were never 
afterwards to know. All through the State, from Mas- 
‘sachusetts Bay to the Connecticut River, the Indians 
spread with the utmost rapidity, carrying terror and 
dismay into every household. They seemed to be ubi- 
quitous, appearing in places widely distant at the same 
time, and only to burn and kill. 
_ The history of this deplorable war is too well known 
to be repeated. More than a dozen towns were de- 
stroyed and half a million of money expended, while 
it is estimated that more than six hundred young men . 
were slain or died in the service, or one in twenty of 
the producing citizens, and one family in every twenty 
was burned out. Contributions came in from various 
sources. Connecticut, which had escaped the ravages 
of the war, sent a thousand bushels of corn, and other 
places were equally prompt with their sorely needed 
aid. Even across the ocean friends appeared, and Ire- 
land sent forward a generous gift. 

It will be sufficient to say that Weymouth was not 
the least among the sufferers. At the very beginning 
of hostilities (Feb. 12, 1675) an attack was made 
upon the town, and several houses burnt.* At the 
eall of the State the men of Weymouth responded 
heartily to defend their homes from the ravages of the 
destroyer, and in the return made by Capt. William 
Torrey, on behalf of the Committee of Militia of Wey- 
mouth, Dec. 1, 1675, appear the names of twelve 
volunteers, and nearly all of those names were of her 
known and honored citizens? In March following, 


1 See N. E. Gen. Register, Vol. VII. p. 143. 

2 Among the papers preserved in the archives at the State House, Bos- 
ton, is found the following (Vol. LXVIII. p. 77): ‘* Dec. 1, 1675. These 
are to certify the honorable counsell that in observance of a warrant to me 
directed from the honorable Major, we have called together the soldiers 


38 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


the town was again attacked by a band of Indians who 
were on their way to Plymouth Colony, and seven 
houses and barns were burned;' while in February pre- 
ceding several men had been killed in the town.? So 
many men had been drawn away from the place for 
frontier service, that not enough remained for their own 
defence, and the exigency was so great that on the 
46th of March, 1676, a petition was presented to the gov- 
ernor and council, signed by the same William Torrey, 
and on the same behalf, urging the recall of the men 
then on the frontier for the protection of their own 
homes. Then follow the names of these, ten in all, 
none of them belonging to the preceding list. These, 
too, were all young men of character and promise.? 


last listed, and divided your arms and ammunition, and hope they will 
appear complete when they are called out upon service. We have also 
viewed the clothing, and have taken order for the supply of such as did 
desire it, but the most did refuse to be provided for, choosing rather to 
provide it themselves. The names of those that are provided for this 
service are as follows: Hezekiah King, Jonas Humpbrey, Joseph Richards, 
Allen Dugland, John Whitmarsh, Zachariah Gurney, John Reed, John 
Fford, John Lovill, Sen., William Mellis, John Burrell, Edward Kingman. 
William Torrey, in the name and by the order of the Committee of Militia 
for Weymouth.” 
New England Memorial, Nathaniel Morton, p. 437. 

2N. E. Gen. Register, Vol. VII. p. 343. 

8 «To the honorable Governor and Counsel assembled at Boston: _ 

‘¢The humble request of the Committee of the Militia of Weymouth. 

‘* Humbly showeth. that for as much as the numbers of men are far less 
than those of Hingham and no greater than those of Brantry and 
whereas we understand that both Hingham and Braintry have all, or very 
near all their men set at liberty from the country service to attend the 
defence of their towns and furthermore considering that our town by 
reason of the disadvantageous situation of it is more hardly defended than 
either of theirs, they being more plane and compact, therefore our hum- 
ble request to your Honors, is, that we having ten able men upon the 
country service at those Towns upon Connecticut river, may have them 
set at liberty and sent home by your Honors’ order, because of the great 
want of men for our defense, especially at this time when we are in daily 
expectation of the enemy. The confidence and assurance which we have 
of your great care for our defence, both embolden us unto this request, 
which if you shall see meet in your pleasure to grant, it will be a great 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 39 


April 19, 1676, Sergt. Thomas Pratt was killed at 
Weymouth. And again the petition comes up from 
the distressed settlement, upon a demand for six more 
men by the State, representing in the most vivid colors 
the dangers of their position and the absolute necessity 
that the men should remain at home and defend their 
own firesides, “ who when we are most are but a small 
company, and we have ten men out already and have 
the enemy appearing daily at our very doors, four killed 
already, all in danger wheresoever we go; in expecta- 
tion every day and hour of being assaulted, stand continu- 
ally upon our guard, whereby planting is obstructed and 
all things turning into confusion and destruction”; and in 
a postscript the writer, Capt. William Torrey, adds: 
“Just at this instant saw appearing of fire and smoke 
about the Town, whereby we certainly know that the 
enemy is very near us.” ? 


encouragement to us, but if otherwise, we shall humbly acquiese in your 
pleasure concerning it and pray as in duty we are bound ever. 


‘¢ MARCH 28, 1676. 
‘¢ William Torrey in the name of the Committee of the Militia of Way- 
mouth.’’ 


The names of the men are Joshua Phillips, John Arnold, John Record, 
Benjamin Pool, John Luddon, Abram Shaw, Robert Corbet, Isaac Cake- 
bread, Jeremiah Clothier, John Ashdown. Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 
LXVIII. p. 179 (State House). 


1¢ To the much honored Governor and Council now in Boston. The 
humble petition of the Committee of Militia for Waymouth. 

‘*Wumbly showeth, that your poor petitioners have this morning re- 
ceived a warrant from the honorable Major for the impressing of six able 
men fitted for service both with arms, ammunition, and provision, which 
we shall endeavor to do, and are in the execution of said warrant, but we 
most humbly beseech your honors to consider of our present distressed 
and distracted condition, who when we are most, are but a small com- 
pany, and we have ten men out already, and have the enemy appearing 
daily at our very doors, four killed by the enemy, already, all in danger 
wheresoever we go, unlike to have any help from any other, in expecta- 
tiou every day and hour, of being assaulted, stand continually upon our 
guard, whereby planting is obstructed, and all things turning into con- 
fusion and destruction, not knowing how to dispose of our cattle, which 


40 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


A still later letter from the same hand continues the 
story of trouble and alarm, and it was only upon the 
death of Philip and the annihilation of his forces that 
the terror quieted and the settlement calmed down into 
its wonted peace. How many men were furnished by this 
town for service in this war it is impossible now to de- 
termine, as the records are very imperfect, and it is only 
by incidental mention in contemporaneous writings that 
most of the facts now known have been preserved. 
The twenty-nine men whose names are preserved were 
but a part of those who were thus engaged; others are 
known to have “ fought in the bloody war.” On Oct. 12, 
1676, an abatement was made by the General Court in 
favor of Weymouth on account of its losses by the 
enemy, and ten days later the taxes of those persons 
“‘slayne in the war” were levied on the whole town.! 

Later on, March 23, 1678, there is the petition of 
John Lovel, of Weymouth, to be paid for service in this 


were wont to go into the woods, now cannot; they will starve us, or we 
shall starve them, and this is a little of our deplorable condition. 

‘¢ Wherefore our humble petition and request to your Honors, is, that if 
you cannot afford us any help, for the preservation of our lives, which 
now are in danger (and which is the only thing we have care of), that 
you will please to pity us, and so far to lend an ear to our humble re- 
quest, as that our men now impressed, may be discharged and returned 
to us again, and we hope we shall respectfully acknowledge it, as a great 
favor and still remain your honors’ humble servants. 

‘““Wm. Torrey, in the name of, and by the order of the Committee of 
Militia for Weymouth. 

‘* Just at this instant saw appearing of fire and smoke about the Town, 
whereby we certainly know that the enemy is very near us.” — Mass. 
Archives, Vol. LXVIII. p. 233 (State House). 

“ Besides these twenty-two men already enumerated in Mr. Torrey’s let- 
ters there were William Read, James Stuart, John Hollis, Thomas Bay- 
ley, Samuel White, Richard Adams, and Jacob Nash, and probably others. 

“On the 24th May, 1676, Weymouth was assessed £254 13s. 4d., to Bos- 
ton’s £3,000. On the following June, Weymouth is credited by paying 
assignments, and is afterwards assessed for sundry accounts £37 2s. 6d.” 
— G. M. Bodge, of Dorchester. 

1 Records of the General Court, Vol. V. p. 124; and in Massachu- 
setts Archives, Vol. LXIX. p. 177 (State House). 


a 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 41 


war; and Oct. 7, Richard Russ, also of Weymouth, 
a wounded soldier, was allowed forty shillings for his 
cure.’ A night-watch was also kept up in the town as 
late as the summer of that year, showing that the alarm 
had not wholly subsided.? 


Company oF Horse. —In 1679, in the fall, a com- 
pany of horse was formed, which continued its organi- 
zation for a number of years; and a year later, by order 
of the General Court, the soldiers of Weymouth, with 
those of the other towns in Suffolk County, were 
organized into a regiment, under the command of 
Major William Stoughton, thus anticipating any occa- 
sion that might arise which should call for troops.* 


Town Arrairs. — Nov. 26, 1683, an important 
change in the manner of choosing the selectmen was 
effected by a vote of the following import, “that after 
this year the selectmen shall be chosen by ‘papers,’ as 
the law provides,” and this is the first appearance of 
the ballot in Weymouth. 

At a meeting held on the second Tuesday of March, 
1685-6, the following curious record occurs: “Ca- 
leb Littlefield, living in the house formerly Thomas 
White’s, warned to leave town, not being an inhabitant, 
or bring security to the selectmen.” He still remained 
in town, and a request was made to the General Court 
to enter a caution upon its records, that he or his may 
not become chargeable to the town, should they come 
to want. Such was the.care taken that no unnecessary 
burden should be thrown upon the people. In the fol- 


1 Massachusetts Archives, Vol. LXIX. pp. 188, 189 (State House); 
General Court Records, Vol. VY. p. 206. 

2 Town Records. 

3 Records of the General Court, Vol. V. p. 294 (State House). 

4’Town Records. 


42 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


lowing autumn it was voted “that the selectmen should 
have their dinners at the town’s charge when they meet 
for business.” ’ 

On March 7, 1691-2, after various changes in the 
time of holding the annual meetings, the town 
returned to the former custom of holding two each 
year, one on the “last Second day of November, and 
the other on the first Second day of March,” which all 
of the inhabitants who were voters should be obliged to 
attend, under a penalty of eighteen pence for each 
absence.” 


Sir Epmunp Anpros. —The advent of Sir Edmund 
Andros as governor of the colony, in December, 1686, 
was the beginning of a series of important events bear- 
ing upon its political fortunes. Hitherto the colonies 
had been permitted a large degree of freedom in the 
management of their local affairs, and the governor 
seldom interfered; now, everything was to give way to 
the will of the executive, whose power was nearly 
absolute. Learning and religion were given the go-by 
in lack of the usual supports. Town meetings were 
only allowed for the choice of town officers, not for 
deliberation on important matters. The vote by ballot 
was rejected. Personal liberty and the ancient customs 
were disregarded. None could leave the country with- 
out special permit. Probate fees were increased to an 
alarming degree.. Oaths were administered on the 
Bible, to which Puritans would never consent. The 
Episcopal service, never before established in the col- 
ony, must have its place, and a meeting-house in Boston 
was demanded for the purpose. Heavy taxes were 
levied, which were generally refused. Writs of habeas 
corpus were withheld, and the laws of England denied 


1 Town Records. 2 Town Records. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 43 


to the people of the colony. Men were tried, fined, 
and imprisoned for refusal, until even the clergy coun- 
selled resistance. The rights of property were denied, 
and old grants must be renewed at a high rate of fees, 
while grants under the charter were declared void by 
its forfeiture. Indian deeds were worthless. 

Lands had been held under grants from the General 
Court to the towns and from the towns to individuals. 
These were now declared to be “not worth a rush.” 
Possession and use were pleaded in vain by the answer, 
“You use and possess for the king.” The common 
law and the Bible were brought forward in testimony 
only to be scorned. All commons and lands reserved 
for the poor were given to favorites. Everything 
must minister to the power and the purse of the gov- 
ernor and his associates, while all opposers were treated 
as rebels; but the unyielding spirit of the stern old 
Puritans could not be subdued. Ministers preached 
sedition and resistance, and once, at least, put by 
Thanksgiving day. Desperate measures were pro- 
posed and a petition to the king prepared, with which 
Increase Mather was already on his way to England 
when the rebellion of 1688 broke forever the power 
of James, and with him went his rulers in the colonies. 

Weymouth was not indifferent to these great move- 
ments, and May 20, 1689, a meeting was held in rela- 
tion to a new government, at which it was voted, “in 
concurrence with the representatives,” “that the gov- 
ernor, deputy, and assistants chosen in 1686, with the 
deputies then sent by the several towns, should be the 
settled government of the colony.” In other words, 
the vote was to restore the old order of things.’ 

When Sir Edmund Andros made his escape from the 
_ castle, Capt. Samuel White, of Weymouth, received a 


Town Records. 


44 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


warrant from Governor Bradstreet and his council to 
pursue and bring him back again, which he did with his 
troop of fifty-two men, for which, with other services, 
he claimed seventy pounds, but was allowed only twen- 
ty-two pounds eight pence.’ 


Mimirary Company. —June 24, 1689, the follow- 
ing officers were confirmed for the Weymouth and 
Hingham troops: Capt. Ephraim Hunt, Lieut. Jacob 
Nash, Ensign Richard Phillips. Capt. William Tor- 
rey had declined the command on account of the infirm- 
ities of age. This seems to have been a reorganiza- 
tion of the former company raised several years pre- 
vious, and which had been in service during the interval. 


CANADIAN Expepition.—In the Canadian expedi- 
tion of 1690, Weymouth was represented by Capt. 
Ephraim Hunt and others. For his services in this 
campaign, Capt. Hunt received from the General Court 
a grant of the territory now Ashfield. 


1 Massachusetts Archives, Vol. LXX. pp. 225, 226 (State House); 
General Cout Records, Vol. VI. p. 372. 

* Massachusetts Archives, Vol. CVII. pp. 44, 149, 150, 172 (State 
House). 

>The following document was found among the papers of Capt. 
Ephraim Hunt: — 

““Sam" Bedlam, Yeo. & Ebenezer Hunt, Gent" both of Weymouth, 
and Richard Faxon, Gent", of Braintree. 

‘¢ Whereas the Proprietor of No. 7 in a certain township (usually call” 
Huntstown) granted by the General Court to the officers & Soldiers vnd* 
y° comm™ of Capt. Ephraim Hunt (of Weymouth in y* Canada Expedi- 
tion in 1690) is delinquent in paying the lawful dues upon said land, and 
whereas the Propriet™ at a meeting held in Braintree April 4, 1743, chose 
the above named to collect all such dues; therefore said Bedlam Hunt & 
Faxon by virtue of their authority for £20.5. sell to Micah Hunt of Wey- 
mouth the above named } of Land No. 7 of the house Lots in the 1* 
Division of sd township. 

“* Dec. 25,1744. Signed in presence of Joseph Melton, William Badlam 
acknowledged before Benj* Dyer, J. P., Oct. 30, 1745.” 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 45 


Locat Martrers. — Noy. 27, 1693, the selectmen 
were ordered to “prepare and present to the Justices’ 
Court in Boston, the laws and orders which concern 
the prudential affairs of the town”; and March 7, 
1697-8, John Torrey, “to encourage his trade, shall 
have twelve poles of land next his father’s, out of the 
town’s commons, for a tan-yard, as long as he shall use 
it for that purpose.” * 

In 1703, the town seems to have come under the dis- 
pleasure of the government for dereliction of military 
duty, his Excellency intimating to the council, Aug. 
19, that Col. Hunt was in default in the levy of 
soldiers ordered from his regiment, none appearing 
from Weymouth and Hingham, and Col. Hobby was 
despatched with ten men of the troop of guards, with 
orders to make a draft of twenty men out of each of the 
said towns.” 


Town BounpDArRigEs.— From the earliest times, the 
boundaries between Weymouth and Abington on the 
south, and Braintree on the west, seem to have been in 
a very unsatisfactory condition. Committees were 
frequently appointed by Weymouth to run the lines 
with a committee of Braintree, but in nearly all cases 
the latter town refused to act; thus the matter remained 
unsettled, which was a source of much irritation and 
annoyance, until Weymouth appears to have lost 
patience, and ordered its selectmen, June 13, 1712, to 
prosecute the selectmen of Braintree for refusing to 
run the town line as the law provides, voting to stand 
by them in the business. Whether or not the matter 
ever came into court is uncertain, but it is quite true 
that down to the present time the line has never been 
satisfactorily determined.* 

1 Town Records. 


* Records of the Council, Vol. III. p. 474 (State House). 
3 Town Records. 


46 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


New Precinct.—In 1722 an important matter 
came up which threatened to seriously disturb the 
friendly relations that the two sections of the town held 
toward each other. With the increase of population, 
the settled portions of the town gradually extended 
until they covered more or less densely its entire terri- 
tory, verging in the north and south towards villages. 
The length of the town and its narrowness contributed 
to form it into distinct sections, with separate inter- 
ests and associations, and this naturally engendered a 
feeling of conflict, if not of hostility, when any ques- 
tions came up on which there could be a territorial dif- 
ference of opinion. 

These opportunities often occurred, particularly in 
school and parish affairs. The former could more 
easily be adjusted, as schools could be supplied at mod- 
erate expense for all portions; but with regard to 
church and parish, the matter was more difficult to 
manage, since the church was already established, with 
its meeting-house located in the north part of the town, 
and a second church with its necessary expense would 
involve a burden too heavy for the abilities of the town 
to sustain. Yet the distance, some five or more miles 
for a large portion of the inhabitants, and the constantly 
occurring occasions of disagreement, finally brought 
the matter to a crisis, the south portion of the town 
coming to the determination to have its own church 
and meeting-house either by a new precinct or by a 
new town. 

Accordingly, a petition signed by about forty of the 
inhabitants of the south part of the town was. presented 
to the General Court, setting forth the difficulties of 
their position, and praying to be set off as a distinct 
town or precinct. The north part being in the majority, 
and disliking to be disturbed in its old-time arrange- 
ment, determined to oppose the movement and prevent, 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. AT 


if possible, its consummation. A town meeting was 
called and a committee chosen to oppose the petition to 
the General Court. Attempts were made to accommo- 
date the difficulty by a proposed removal of the meet- 
ing-house to a more central locality, all of which failed. 
_ Notwithstanding the efforts of the town, as represented 
by its majority, the General Court, in the spring of 
1723, recognizing the reasonableness of the request, 
granted it, and the South Precinct was organized with 
a territory covering more than half of the area of the 
town. But this did not heal the breach, as subsequent 
events proved, for there were yet continual sources of 
trouble and difficulty arising from the parsonage prop- 
erty which was in possession of the North Precinct, 
and which its people refused to relinquish.’ 


Fisuerties. — In the early days of the town no insig- 
nificant portion of the food supply came from the fish 
taken within or near its borders; and of these, the most 
dependence was placed upon the herring, or alewives, 
which were in the habit of running into the ponds that 
feed Back River, to spawn. For many years the sup- 
ply was doubtless sufficient for all, and there was little 
need of restriction or care lest that supply should fail. 
It was, therefore, unnecessary that the town should con- 
cern itself about the matter. But as the population 
increased, and the multiplying of mills upon the stream 
threatened to prevent the fish from ascending to the 
ponds, it was found necessary that the town should 
take some control of the matter and provide that proper 
care should be taken to preserve this important source 
of food.’ 

As early as 1648 mention is made of the “herringe 
broge,” giving evidence that this fishery dates back to 


Town Records; General Court Records, Vol. XI. p. 523. 
2 Town Records. 


48 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


the first settlement of the town. For the reasons pre- 
viously given, very little notice is subsequently taken of 
the matter for three quarters of a century. In 1724-5, 
at the town meeting held March 8, a committee was 
chosen “to treat with the mill-owners on the river, 
by Bates’, to make a convenient passage for fish into 
Whitman’s Pond, to pay not over £5.” From that 
time onward the “alewives business” occupies a large 
space upon the town records. Officers were regularly 
chosen to have charge of the fisheries, to preserve the 
fish, and also to take and dispose of them in the season, 
while the proceeds of the sale were a source of income 
that the town valued highly, as will be seen in the sub- 
sequent history. The arranging and settling of this 
business often proved quite perplexing and difficult. 


New County. — About 1725, the subject of forming 
a new county, to be set off from Suffolk, was agitated, 
but the project was steadily opposed by Weymouth, 
unless the court house should be located within five 
or six miles of the centre of the town, to which the 
other towns would not consent. 


Dr. Wuite.— At the March meeting, held on the 
14th of that month, 1726-7, the town felt a necessity 
for encouraging the settlement of a physician within its 
limits, and for this purpose voted a “ grant of five acres 
of land to Dr. Nathaniel White while he should remain 
in the town and practise medicine.” 


Town Reauiations. — On July 21, 1729, a list of 
the first jurymen chosen by the town appears upon the 
records, and from that day to the present the matter 
has never been allowed to fall into disuse. 

From the first settlement of the town, for more than 
a century, its expenses were very light, the highways 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 49 


being provided for by personal labor of all the male 
inhabitants above sixteen years of age, and no regular 
appropriation was made for the support of the poor, the 
cases being very few, and each as it came up was cared 
for as the circumstances of the matter required; hence 
are found occasional records like that of Aug. 23, 1733, 
when the three daughters of Widow Ruth Harvey were 
provided for by the town; the largest tax being that 
for the ministry and the schools. These matters will 
be more fully treated in another department of this 
sketch. 

The proposition for a new county still continued to 
be agitated. Feb, 2, 1729-30, the town went so far as 
to choose an agent to treat with the towns of Scituate, 
Hingham, Hull, Braintree, Hanson and Abington, re- 
specting the matter, and Sept. 1, 1735, a vote was 
passed in favor of a new county, to be composed of the 
towns in Suffolk County outside of Boston. 

At the following town meeting, held March 1, 1735-6, 
two important measures were passed; one allowing 
all freeholders to vote in the affairs of the town com- 
mons, and the other to divide all the commons among 
the householders “who are freeholders” in equal 
shares; and this vote was reaffirmed at a subsequent 
meeting held March 29. 

March 7, 1736-7, a committee was chosen to unite 
with Braintree to build a cart bridge over the Smelt 
Brook at Weymouth Landing, a proceeding so necessary 
that it is almost impossible to conceive that an important 
thoroughfare like this, on the main road leading from 
Boston to Plymouth, should have been so long per- 
mitted to remain without such an improvement. 

And again, on the 13th of March following, the town 
votes its mind that Boston should be a county by itself, 
and a committee was chosen to petition the General 
Court to that effect. 

rl 


50 SKETCIL OF WEYMOUTH. 


Parsonage Property.— Eyer since the division 
of the town into two precincts, there had been constant 
trouble about the parsonage matters before referred to; 
the South claiming a share in the property, and the 
North steadily refusing to allow the claim. Yet it was 
such a continual source of irritation that on June 23, 
1741, the town chose a committee to consider the mat- 
ter and to see if some amicable adjustment could not be 
made; but the effort failed, and the subject remained to 
be the cause of much future trouble. 


Piawacket Inprans. — In 1744 a proposition was 
made that the Pigwacket Indians, then stationed in 
Boston, should be placed in Weymouth, but the disposi- 
tion of the town was shown by a unanimous vote, on 
July 25, that this should not be done. 


Town Commons.—On May 23, 1751, the town 
made its first general appropriation for the poor by 
voting twenty pounds for this purpose. At the same 
meeting it was also voted that the Second Precinct 
should have its share of town meetings in proportion to 
its tax; also that the town commons should be divided 
among the imhabitants according to the tax of 1750, 
each poll to draw one share, and other shares in pro- 
portion to the tax; but this vote was changed as all pre- 
vious votes of the kind had been, on July 1, so as to 
except all not over twenty-one years of age, all not 
born in town and who were not householders and free- 
holders, and also all persons renting property. 


THroAt DistemMPER.— At this period occurred the 
terrible throat distemper that raged so violently in the 
town during a whole year, from May, 1751, to May, 
1752, that out of an estimated population of about twelve 
hundred, one hundred and fifty died, being an eighth of 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 51 


the whole number. This scourge is unprecedented in 
the history of the town, and was long remembered with 
dread and horror. Another disaster of a very different 
character occurred in the burning of the old church, in 
the First Precinct, on the 23d of April, 1751, in which 
were stored three barrels of gunpowder. These two 
occurrences were deemed of so much consequence that 
the town voted not to send a representative to the Gen- 
eral Court that year on that account.’ 


FrENcH AND INDIAN WaArs. — Soon after this the 
peace of the colonies was seriously disturbed by the 
wars between England and France, which, to a large 
degree, were carried on upon this continent, and in 
which the French made alliance with the savage tribes 
of New York, Canada, and the nearer western terri- 
tories, who carried on the wars in their usual merciless 
and bloodthirsty manner; and although New England, 
especially upon the shores of Massachusetts Bay and 
the southern borders, was far removed from the scene 
of active strife, yet even the little town of Weymouth 
was not exempt from its share in the hardship and 
expense attendant upon their continuance. The records 
are very bare and many of the muster rolls have been 
lost, but enough remain to show something of what 
these wars cost the town in blood and treasure for mat- 
ters in which it had no real concern. In the expedi- 
tions of 1755 and 1756 to Crown Point and Lake 
George, about forty men of Weymouth belonged in the 
regiment of Col. (afterwards Gen.) Benjamin Lincoln, 
under the command of Capt. Samuel Thaxter. Of this 
number six never returned to the town, but died or 
were killed during the year’s service. Among the men 
of this company was Lieut. Solomon Lovell, afterwards 
general during the Revolutionary struggle. But these 


* Dr. Cotton Tufts, Town Records. 


52 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


were not all, for in the many hard campaigns along the 
northern frontiers during these and subsequent years, 
until the capture of that last stronghold of the French 
on this continent, Louisburg, in 1758, and the victory of 
Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham, below Quebec, in the 
year following, by which the power of that nation in 
this quarter of the world was completely broken, Wey- 
mouth sent her sons to assist in the general cause. 

The names of such, to a great extent, are wanting, 
but in the incidental mentions upon public archives, 
and in private family histories, enough is gathered to 
show that there were many of them, and that they bore 
an honorable record.’ 

1“ See Colonel Lincoln’s Return, Oct. 2, 1755, State Archives, Vol. 


XCIII. Capt. Samuel Thaxter’s company. 
The names of the men [of Weymouth] were: — 


Lieut. Wm. Whitmarsh, Ensign Nath’! Bayley, 
John Canterbury, Jonathan Darby, 
Hezekiah White, Benjamin Tirrell, 
Joseph Truefant, Stephen Saulsbury, 


Silas Lovell. 

“The following list made up from the various muster rolls of the 
troops engaged in that campaign [Lake George in 1756], and found in the 
State Archives, Eoston, Vols. XCIII., XCIV., and XCV., is believed to 
be very nearly correct: — 


First Lieut., Solomon Lovell. 


Sergt. Caleb Eldredge, Corp. John Canterbury, jun. 
Sergt. Jonathan Darby, jun. Corp. Benjamin Nash, 
Sergt. Thomas Cushing, Corp. James Hunt, 
Silas Lovell, Stephen Canterbury, 
Benjamin Tirrell, Joseph Trufant, 
Joseph Pratt, 3d, William Holbrook, jun. 
Noah Hates, Benjamin Richards, 
William Richards, Samuel Orcutt, 

Joseph Ford, David Orcutt, 

Lemuel Barbar, Stephen Saulsbury, 
Joseph Blanchard, William Salisbury, 
Ebenezer Tirrell, Thomas Colson, jun. 
John Lincoln, Nehemiah Joy, 

James Nash, John Randall Vining, 
William Rice, Isaac Joy, 

Humphrey Burrell, William Bates, 


Isaac Pool, Nathaniel Blanchard. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 53 


Frenco Neutrars. —In 1755, after the capture of 
Acadia (Nova Scotia) by the English, large numbers 
of the unfortunate inhabitants, who were, with the 
greatest inhumanity forced to abandon their former 
pleasant homes, and seek shelter wherever they might, 
were brought to Boston, and as no provision had been 
made for their support, they were parcelled out among 
the several towns that were thus compelled to provide 
for them. Weymouth received its share, but how 
many there remains no record to show, excepting such 
as is found in the votes of the town in special cases and 
upon the treasurer’s books, like the following: “ March 8, 
1756. Dr. Nathaniel White was paid eight shillings 
per week for a year for keeping the French Neuters.” 
This by vote of the town, and upon the treasurer’s 
account there is an item of six pounds paid to James 
Humphrey, Feb. 28, 1761, for subsisting the “ French 
Neuters.”?’ 


Dr. Turrs.— Again, March 10, 1760, Dr. Cotton 
Tufts, who had recently settled in the north part of 
the town as a physician, and who afterwards, for more 
than half a century was one of its most valuable and 
prominent citizens, was chosen agent to confer with 
other towns about a new county. 


‘¢ (The last named and Benjamin Nash should, perhaps, be credited to 
Braintree). Of these, six died during the campaign: Thomas Cushing, 
John Canterbury, James Hunt, William Holbrook, Benjamin Richards, 
John Randall Vining. The term of service was from February to No- 
vember, about nine months.” —Weymouth Historical Society, Publication 
No. 1, pp. 31, 32. 

[ Besides these, many went into the various Northern campaigns during 
that war, but the records are so deficient or wholly wanting, that it has 
been impossible to the present time to ascertain how many or who they 
were, but probably many more than are named in the above lists. — 
GN. 

Town Records. 


54 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


Hieuways. — About the same time, also, the town 
was found to have outgrown the primitive method of 
working the highways, and something different and 
more effective was needed. New regulations were con- 
sequently adopted, whereby each poll was to be taxed 
two shillings and one penny (one day’s work), other 
taxes in same proportion. ‘Those having teams, horse 
or ox, were rated at certain prices, and the whole mat- 
ter was reduced to a kind of system, rude to be sure, 
but a vast improvement upon the ancient plan. This 
arrangement was continued, with comparatively few 
changes, for several generations.’ 


SoutTH Precryot.— During these years the South 
Precinct seems to have been steadily gaining upon the 
North in population and influence, and had become 
strong enough to command a vote, March 24, 1761, 
defining the word “ministry ” in the parsonage deed 
to include both ministers, and that each should draw 
of the income from that source in proportion to the tax 
paid by his parish.” 


Town Records. ? Town Records. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 55 


CHAPTER III. 


Revolutionary War—Arbitrary Measures of the Crown -— Agents chosen 
to meet in Boston— Commitees of Correspondence — No more Tea — 
Energetic Action — Record of Votes on the Resolutions of Congress — 
Refusal to pay Taxes to the Royal Treasurer — Town Committee of 
Correspondence — Minute-Men — Preparations for War— Raising 
Troops— Declaration of Independence — Bounties — State Conven- 
tion — State Constitution — Procuring Men and Provisions — Soldiers 
to Hull. 


REVOLUTIONARY WAr.'— Soon after this time the 
political affairs of the colonies began to assume an im- 
portance that they had never before reached. The 
arbitrary measures of the English government, continu- 
ally growing more and more harsh and oppressive, had 
roused the people to a pitch that boded no friendly 
issue. Measure after measure was adopted by the min- 
istry, each more urgent and onerous than the former, 
and forced upon the people until they were compelled 
to resort to extreme measures in self-defence. During 
the whole history of the colonies all important busi- 
ness was transacted in open town meeting. Was 
any measure suggested for the benefit of the town, 
here it was thoroughly discussed, and adopted or re- 
jected. Was any grievance complained of, here it was 
also considered and remedies proposed. Here all voters 
stood upon a perfect equality, where each could and did 
speak his mind freely and fully, and every vote counted 
one. 


?Most of the facts contained in this chapter are taken from the town 
records, and may be found under the dates to which they are assigned; 
consequently, special notes will not be needed to verify them. 


56 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


In these town meetings, therefore, the measures of 
government came up for consideration, and such means 
were adopted as seemed best suited to counteract their 
evil effects. 

Here were chosen the representatives to the General 
Court, to whom were given instructions filled with im- 
portant and minute detail, and these officers were held 
to a strict accountability. To their constituents they 
must answer, and that directly; there could be no evad- 
ing or shirking, consequently the public business was 
transacted under a feeling of heavy responsibility, which 
resulted in carrying out the will of the people as far as 
the power of the deputies extended. The law-makers 
in General Court assembled were the same class of men 
who spoke so boldly in town meeting, and the same 
spirit animated their actions in the higher position. 

Weymouth took an active and prominent part in the 
primary action that immediately preceded the war of the 
Revolution, and under the leadership of such men as 
Major James Humphrey, Dr. Cotton Tufts, and Gen. 
Solomon Lovell, of the North Parish, and Deacon 
Nathaniel Bayley, of the South,’ the town took a posi- 
tion that it had never before nor has since attained. 
Oct. 16, 1765, Major Humphrey, then representative to 
the General Court, received full and decided instruc- 
tions from the town as to the position he was to take in 
the present position of affairs.* 

Sept. 1, 1766, the town refused to consent to the 
proposition “that the sufferers by the disturbances of 
last year in Boston should be paid from the public treas- 
ury, as recommended by his Majesty, and instructed 
their representative of this action.” 


AGENTS CHOSEN TO MEET IN Boston. — Sept. 21, 
1768, James Humphrey and Cotton Tufts were ap- 


* See Appendix D. 2 See Appendix E. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 57 


pointed agents to meet in Faneuil Hall, Boston, on the 
following day, to consult with the agents of other towns 
on the present state of affairs. 


CoMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE. — In the mean 
time the political matters of the State had reached such 
a point that committees of correspondence had been 
formed in all of the principal towns, and frequent con- 
sultations were held upon the important matters then 
agitating the country. At a special meeting held in 
Weymouth, Jan. 3, 1774, of which James Humphrey was 
moderator, a letter was read from the Boston committee, 
with copies of the votes and proceedings of that town at 
meetings held on the 5th and 18th of the previous 
November, with regard to the cargoes of teas daily 
expected from the Hast India Company’s warehouses 
in London, suggesting the co-operation of the several 
towns in resisting the introduction of this obnoxious 
article, — obnoxious only because it had been the inno- 
cent occasion of an unjust tax. The matter was fully 
considered and a resolution passed “by a very great 
majority . . .. not to purchase nor use any of the 
Hast India Company’s teas of any kind (excepting such 
as they might now have on hand) until the act of Par- 
liament, laying a duty thereon, be repealed.” 


No more TEA. — Also, that the minds of the people 
might be more fully determined, and there be no mistake 
in the business, and to show that they were as ready to 
act as to resolve, a committee was chosen, consisting of 
Cotton Tufts, Esq., Major Lovell, Deacon Nathaniel 
Bayley, Jacob Goold and Ebenezer Colson, to prepare 
the resolutions in proper form and to present them 
at the March meeting “to be signed, that the minds of 
the inhabitants may be generally known.” 

On the 18th of July, of the same year, a form of coy- 


58 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


enant was received from the committee of correspond- 
ence of Boston, and recommended for signatures. ‘This 
was placed in the hands of a committee, who were to 
give it full consideration, obtain as many names to it as 
possible, and then to deposit it with the town clerk. 


Enercetic Action. — Ata meeting held on the 28th 
of September following, the instructions of the deputies 
from Boston to the General Court were read, and the 
same were made the instructions of the town to its dep- 
uty, Nathaniel Bayley. At the same meeting, Deacon 
Bayley was also chosen to attend the meeting of the 
Provincial Convention to assemble at Concord, on the 
second Tuesday of October next. The town also 
accepted the nineteen resolves drawn up by the county 
committee, agreeing to stand by them, and to hold the 
constables harmless in refusing to pay over the State 
taxes to the treasurer appointed by the crown. 


ReEcorp oF VOTES ON THE RESOLUTIONS OF Con- 
Gress. — The resolutions prepared by the committee 
had been presented to the inhabitants for signature, 
according to the action of the town, and were reported 
as follows. In the South Precinct this preamble was 
adopted, date Dec. 12, 1774: — 

“We, the inhabitants of the Second Precinct in the 
said Town, under the sacred ties of Virtue, Honor, and 
love of our Country, do now covenant and agree with 
each other, that we will conform and strictly adhere to 
the agreement and association which the American 
Continental Congress has recommended unto us, and 
which has now been read.” 

This was signed with the following result: One 
hundred and two in favor, none against, and twenty-one 
not voting; making a total of one hundred and twenty- 
three voters. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 59 


In the North Precinct the agreement varied a little in 
its wording, and read as follows: — 

“We, the inhabitants of the first precinct of Wey- 
mouth, whose names are here underwritten, do signify 
our approbation to the Continental Association which is 
recommended by the General Continental Congress 
held in Philadelphia, in the year 1774, those of us that 
approve of the same to answer to our names by the 
word ‘yea,’ and those who disapprove of the same 
by the word ‘ no.’” 

The questions were put at the close of the lecture, 
Dee. 25, 1774, with this result: One hundred and four 
answered “yea,” four answered “no,” and fourteen did 
not answer, one hundred and twenty-two voters being 
at the meeting. 


REFusE To PAY TAXES To THE RoyAL TREASURER. 
— Jan. 30, 1775, Deacon Nathaniel Bayley was elected 
by the town as its delegate to the proposed Congress 
to meet at Cambridge, Ist of February next, the town 
to provide for him. The town also chose a committee 
to see that the inhabitants adhere strictly to their 
pledge; and at the same meeting, renewed the vote to 
hold the constables harmless for not carrying their 
money for the year 1772 to “Harryson Gray,” and 
ordered the money to be paid to the town treasurer. 
On the 18th of March, however, the latter vote was so 
far reconsidered as to direct the constables to pay the 
money to Henry Gardner of Stow. 


Town ComMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE. — A com- 
mittee of correspondence for Weymouth, to act with 
those of the neighboring towns, had been chosen on 
the 9th of March, consisting of Dr. Tufts, Major 
Lovell, Major Vining, Capt. Asa White and Mr. Josiah 
Colson. This committee met in Arnold’s Tavern, at 


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Weymouth Landing (the building is yet standing), 
together with those with whom they were to associate, 
organized by choice of Dr. Tufts as chairman, and 
Capt. White as secretary, and afterwards did efficient 
service during the war.’ 


Minutse-Men. — On the 13th of March it having 
been deemed necessary, in view of the exigency of the 
times and the wish to be prepared for any emergency, 
to enlist a company of minute-men, it was voted to pay 
them one shilling per week for four weeks; and on May 
2d of the same year, it was voted to pay “a pistareen a 
day for a week to a company of fifteen men for a mili- 
tary guard in the present troublesome times.” Desert- 
ers were to lose their wages. 


PREPARATIONS FoR WAR. — At a town meeting held 
on the 24th of May, Deacon Nathaniel Bayley was 
chosen to represent the town in the Provincial Congress 
to meet at Watertown, May 31; the committee of cor- 
respondence was also directed to ascertain who were 
in need of arms, and report to the commanding officer. 
Enrolled soldiers from sixteen to sixty years of age were 
required to meet and organize, those of each parish at 
their own meeting-house, on the 25th of May. The 
town also accepted the offer of Mr. Polley for the 
use of two swivel guns then at Salem, and voted their 
thanks to Dr. Tufts for his offer to transport them 
to Weymouth. 

On the 29th of May, the committee was authorized to 
procure arms at the town’s expense for those not able to 
purchase or hire them, and the committee of correspond- 
ence was directed to put in order the two swivel guns 


‘See record of Col. Asa White in files of the Weymouth Historical 
Society. 


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and to procure ammunition at the town’s charge, in 
case the province should not assume it. ‘The bells were 
also to be rung to notify an alarm. The thanks of the 
town were also voted to Hon. Richard Darby for the use 
of two small carriage guns, which were delivered to 
Thomas Jenks, to be returned when done, with thanks, 
and all damage made good. 

June 1, 1775, the town instructed the committee to 
hire guns at one dollar each, for six months; and such 
was the urgency of the times that the enrolled militia 
were ordered to appear under arms on the Lord’s day, 
under penalty of one dollar for each day; and those who 
remained at home, without reasonable excuse, were to 
forfeit two dollars each. The number of those report- 
ing without arms was twelve in the North Precinct, 
and twenty-two in the South. 

March 11, 1776, a new committee of correspondence 
was chosen, consisting of Cotton Tufts, Esq., Capt. 
James White, Col. Solomon Lovell, Nathaniel Bayley, 
Hsq., and Richard Blanchard; and on the 20th of May, 
two representatives were chosen, Nathaniel Bayley and 
Col. Solomon Lovell. All persons drawing ammunition 
from the town were to return the same in amount, or 
pay at the rate of four shillings per pound for powder, 
eight pence for bullets, and six pence for flints. 


Raistne Troops. — At a town meeting held on the 
15th of July, the town voted to raise one hundred and 
thirty pounds by tax, to be added to the bounty offered 
by the province for the enlistment of ten men, the quota 
called for from Weymouth, to be raised in ten days. 
Deacon Nathaniel Bayley and Capt. Samuel Ward were 
authorized to hire men from out of town in case they 
should not be raised in town, and to pay them the 
same bounty as was paid to townsmen, that is, twenty 
pounds, thirteen from the town and seven from the 


62 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


province, and the treasurer was to borrow the money 
for the purpose. 

On the 22d of July eight more men were called for 
from the town, and it was voted to raise one hundred 
and four pounds additional. These men were enlisted 
for the Northern or Canada expedition, and fully earned 
their wages. It was also voted at a meeting held Nov. 
18, 1776, to raise ninety-two pounds for the men raised 
on the previous September. This was to be raised by 
tax on polls and estates, and all who had been in the 
continental service for a year were exempt from it. 
And on the 23d of December following the town 
raised one hundred and ninety-eight pounds to pay 
twenty-two men who had gone into the continental 
service with Lieut. Samuel Kingman, or three pounds 
additional to each man. 

Upon the actual commencement of hostilities, as will 
be seen, the town took prompt and decided measures to 
perform its whole duty in carrying into effect its reso- 
lutions of the previous years, and to obtain the inde- 
pendence of the country. Men and money were freely 
raised and sent forward at the call of the continental 
and provincial authorities. 


DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. — The Declaration 
of Independence was entered in full upon the town 
records, and read from both pulpits upon the next Lord’s 
day after its reception. Measures were also taken to 
prevent a monopoly in articles of necessity, and to guard 
against extortion, and the prices at which these articles 
were to be sold were fixed by the town. 


Bounties. — At a meeting held Feb. 21, 1777, to 
encourage enlistments for a longer term than those of 
previous years, it was voted to pay each soldier enlist- 
ing in the continental service for three years, or during 


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the war, seventy-four pounds additional. On the 17th 
of March it was voted to pay each soldier who was in 
the Northern army six pounds fora year. The com- 
mittee was instructed to inquire “why some of our 
soldiers came from York before their time was up,” 
and these were not to draw their pay until the com- 
mittee had made its report. 

On the 14th of May it was voted to pay “six pounds 
per month, for eight months, for men who enlist in the 
provincial or continental service, and deserters were to 
forfeit ail right to their wages.” On the 21st of the 
same month, a thousand pounds was voted to raise men 
for the continental army, and a committee of three 
chosen to hire men from out of town. No one member 
was to pay more than thirty pounds per man without 
the consent of another.’ On the 18th of August the 


1On the 22d of May, 1777, the town voted {the following instructions 
to Col. Solomon Lovell, its representative in the General Court, from the 
pen, probably, of Dr. Cotton Tufts. It is, as will be seen, ‘‘a remark- 
ably able and well-written document, and will compare favorably with 
the best public papers of that day.” 


“INSTRUCTIONS TO THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE TOWN OF WEYMOUTH. 


“To Cot’. SOLOMON LOVELL. 

‘Sir. Thestruggle in which we are engaged is great and important, it 
calls for the Exertion of all the Powers and Faculties of every Individual 
in order to secure the invaluable Blessing of Liberty in its full Extent, 
which we profess to be the grand object of our pursuit. Could these be 
united and center in the main Point, we might, under Providence, be 
assured of success; to effect this, as Men have different Powers and 
Capacities adapted to different purposes, it is necessary that Men be em- 
ployed in those different Matters for which they are best calculated, and 
without attending to this, the Publick cannot be well served nor its good 
Advanced. You are therefore Instructed to use your Influence, that the 
various offices of Government be filled up by Persons of Integrity and 
known qualifications for.their Particular offices, and that a Multiplicity of 
offices be devolved upon no one, Especially where they cannot be dis- 
charged with Fidelity, and the good of the People, however otherwise 
qualified or distinguished the Person may be. Agreeable hereunto you 
are Instructed not to give your Vote for any Person to sit in Council who 
holds any office or offices incompatable with the faithful Discharge of the 


64 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


town voted to add four pounds ten shillings per month 
to the pay of each soldier from the time of marching to 
his return, allowing twenty miles for a day’s march. 
Three hundred pounds more was also raised for men for 
the continental service; and on the 25th of August the 
wages of soldiers were raised to twelve pounds per 
month until the Ist of November. 

On the 22d of September, by vote of the town, men 
were not to be drafted for the army, and those who 


Duties of a Councillor, nor for any Member of the Continental Congress, 
nor for any holding Commissions under it, and that the Affairs of Govern- 
ment may be conducted, as much as may be, with Dispatch and without 
interruption. You are instructed to use your Endeavors that Members of 
the Gen' Court be not unnecessarily charged with the Transaction of Busi- 
ness that can be as well or better done by suitable persons not belonging to 
the same, and who may be appointed for such purpose, and that all per- 
sons entrusted by the General Court, with Business of any kind, do from 
Time to Time render an Account of their conduct, where any are unfaith- 
ful that they may be displaced without favor or affection, see that the un- 
faithful be punished, and the upright servants of Government be rewarded, 
for where faithful servants of Government are not rewarded, no man of 
Integrity will ever chuse to accept a Trust, and the State must be goy- 
erned by weak and wicked Men. You are on the one Hand to avoid such 
parsimony as to discourage worthy men from engaging in the Publick 
Service, and on the other Hand such a profusion as to encourage Men to 
fleece the Public, and to wiggle themselves into places of Profit and 
Honor. You are particularly instructed to use your utmost endeavors 
that every measure be pursued for the suppression of vice and immor- 
ality, and as no People can long enjoy Liberty or Civil Happiness, with- 
out a fixed Government, whose Laws are founded in Justice and admin- 
istered with impartiality, we do agreeably to a recommendation of the 
late General Assembly instruct you to join with the House of Represent- 
atives in one Body with the Council to form a Constitution of govern- 
ment, and when compleated to lay the same before us for our approbation 
or disapprobation. 

‘* That you Sir, with the Members of the general Assembly, may be 
directed by the Supreme Governor of the world in the formation of a 
Constitution satisfactory to the inhabitants of this State and productive 
of the greatest Virtue and Happiness not only to the present, but to 
succeeding Generations, that the Children yet unborn may rise up and 
call you blessed, is the ardent wish of your constituents 


“ Corron Turts JAMES HumMPHREY ASA WHITE ELIPHAZ WESTON 
NATHANIEL BAILEY.” 


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entered the service in the previous September were to 
be allowed forty shillings per month to make their pay 
equal to that of the men hired by the town. Men were 
becoming scarce, and more difficulty was found in 
obtaining them, consequently greater inducements must 
be offered. On the 6th of November, Capts. Samuel 
Ward and Thomas Nash were instructed to raise men 
at the best rate they could to guard prisoners, to serve 
until the Ist of April next, and another levy of eighty 
pounds was made. 

On the 10th of November, under a further call for 
soldiers, it was voted to “pay them four pounds in case 
they can’t be had for less, and forty shillings for rations, 
to find themselves in case the State does not find them,” 
and for this purpose seventy-five pounds was voted. 

At the meeting held on the 2d of March, 1778, it was 
found so difficult to raise the necessary number of men 
demanded of the town that a committee was constituted 
to devise an easier method of doing it; but notwith- 
standing their utmost exertions, the trouble met them 
face to face. Men must be had, and no men were to be 
found. Committees were appointed to assist the officers 
in procuring enlistments, but the men came slowly and 
only upon the offer of superior inducements. The war 
was lingering on much longer than any had at first 
supposed, and with no immediate prospect of an end. 
The buoyancy of spirit and the hope that animated 
the people at the beginning had died out, and there 
remained but the stern reality of severe service, small 
pay, and an abundance of hardship. Enthusiasm 
could accomplish nothing, for there was none; conse- 
quently, money must be given in its stead. 

On the 16th of March, 1778, it was voted to raise six 
hundred and twelve pounds to pay the men under Capt. 
Ward, at the rate of nine pounds per month, who were 
guarding the stores near Boston. On the 25th of May 

5 


66 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


following, fifteen hundred pounds was voted “to raise 
men to be sent to Gen. Washington, and other places, 
and the committee was authorized to go out of town to 
hire them, and to pay each man one hundred pounds, or 
forty shillings per month, to serve, to be paid in articles 
at the prices when the war began.” 

July 8, 1779, the committee was instructed to hire 
soldiers for the continental army for nine months, three 
years, or the war, to pay them forty shillings per month 
in produce at the prices of 1775, or in cash upon the 
best terms they can make, the treasurer to borrow forty- 
five hundred pounds for the purpose. 


State Convention. — On the 22d of July, 1779, 
Hon. James Humphrey was chosen representative to 
the State Convention, to meet at Cambridge on the Ist 
of the following September, for the purpose of form- 
ing a constitution; and on the 2d of August the town 
accepted, by a large majority, the action of the conven- 
tion at Concord regulating prices, and a committee was 
chosen to carry the matter into effect, also to see that 
the regulations were observed. On the 16th of August 
the treasurer was authorized to borrow nine thousand 
pounds for the purpose of procuring soldiers. This 
rapid and large increase of appropriations is simply the 
measure of the depreciation in the value of the currency 
of the country at that time, and by no means an indica- 
tion of such an increase in the actual expense. As an 
illustration of this advance, or rather depreciation, in 
1780, March 18, at the annual meeting, six pounds 
was fixed as the value of a day’s work upon the high- 
ways, against two shillings eight pence two years pre- 
vious. At this meeting the assessors were instructed 
“to report a list of all persons taxed for estates to be 
amended by the town, and all upon the list were to be 
required to give in under oath a true list of their 


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property, and any who do not shall pay double their 
assessment, and to double on each assessment until they 
comply with the requirement.” 


STaTE Constitution. — On the 24th of April, 1780, 
a committee was appointed to consider the new Con- 
stitution and report, which was done on the 22d of May, 
and this Constitution was accepted with a proposition 
of certain amendments, such as “ where personal estate 
is required, it shall be expressly mentioned ‘ratable 
estate’; and that at least as much property shall be re- 
quired for qualification of members of Congress as for 
senators, and that no member of the board of war 
shall be a member of the Senate or House of Represent- 
atives; that express provision be made for calling a 
Congress in 1795.” Hon. James Humphrey, the del- 
egate, was instructed to advocate these amendments, 
and also to vote for the adoption of the Constitution, 
even although they should not be made. 

On the 19th of June the town was divided into twenty 
districts “as the tax-lists stand, each district to send 
one man into the service, and if any one refuse to go or 
to pay his proportion, the captain of the company is 
directed to draft him. Any widow or female refusing 
to pay, it shall be added to the next tax, and any district 
that neglects to furnish its man, the captain of its com- 
pany shall proceed to draft, the tax-list to be put into 
the hands of the three highest on the list for the purpose 
of calling a meeting to carry this vote into effect.” 


Procurtne Men anv Provisions.— On the 18th 
of September the town voted fifteen thousand pounds 
for three-months’ men, and on Oct. 9, twenty thou- 
sand pounds more to purchase beef, according to 
the requirement of the General Court. On Dec. 20, 
the militia officers were appointed a committee to see 


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if they can hire nineteen men, the town’s quota for 
the continental army upon the last call of the General 
Court, and one hundred and thirty thousand pounds 
was voted to procure beef on the call of the same. 
Non-residents were to be taxed for their share of 
expense in hiring the six-months’ men, and fifty hard 
dollars a year for three years was to be the pay of men 
for the continental service. 

At the annual meeting, March 12, 1781, it was voted 
that “any person refusing to pay his proportion of the 
expense of procuring men for three-years’ service shall 
be taxed for the same and the tax collected by the 
officer.” On the 26th of March it was voted to change 
the manner of raising men; voted to raise nineteen hun- 
dred hard dollars, or currency, seventy-five for one, for 
the purpose; ninety pounds in specie to be paid for 
three-years’ men: one third when mustered in, and one 
third at the beginning of each year for two years suc- 
ceeding. 

The first meeting recorded for the election of State 
officers was held April 2,1781. On the 9th it was 
ordered that the money raised to pay soldiers should be 
kept by itself; and that a petition be presented to the 
General Court for the privilege of enlisting the men at 
the castle for the three-years’ service. On June 18, 
. “three hundred dollars, hard money, was voted for 
three-years’ men: one third at the beginning of each 
year, or fifty dollars bounty, and ten dollars per month.” 
On the 25th of June, men were to be “hired on the best 
terms that could be made for six months, and if delayed 
longer than that, to have double wages for the over- 
time,” and for this the town would give security, —a 
proceeding reflecting somewhat upon its credit. 

On the 9th of July it was voted to raise five-months’ 
and three-months’ men for the continental service. On 
July 16 a better prospect opened, when it was under- 


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- stood that “men could be had for fifty hard dollars, and 
they to relinquish the continental pay.” It was accord- 
ingly voted to hire them. On the 8th of October it was 
. voted to raise twenty-five hundred hard dollars to hire 
men for three years, the committee to have discretionary 
powers in the matter; also voted that the monthly 
requisition for beef be complied with. Nov. 19, 
it was voted to assess immediately the State tax to 
make up the deficiency in continental soldiers; and on 
Dec. 10 it was voted that the tax, fourteen hun- 
dred and thirteen pounds four shillings and sixpence, 
be paid by Jan. 1, following, or the men procured, 
each of whom was to be rated one hundred and twenty- 
eight pounds nine shillings and sixpence, and every 
exertion was to be used to procure money and men. 


SoutprErs To Hutu. — It appears that the men were 
-yaised with much trouble, but not until after the 
time set, Dec. 20, and the superintendent refused to 
receive them. <A petition was ’therefore made to the 
governor and council to be relieved from the difficulty 
by a grant of more time. On Sept. 30, 1782, ten 
soldiers were sent to Hull to assist the French in 
throwing up fortifications for the defence of the harbor, 
and these were to be paid “seven dollars per month, 
if not allowed that by the State”; and on Dec. 2 
the town remitted the taxes of “Gideon Colson and 
Thomas Tirrell, they being in the enemies’ hands when 
the taxes were made.” 

This concludes a brief sketch of the history of Wey- 
mouth during the Revolution, as found upon its records. 
Very much of its service in men and money must be 
sought in other directions, and at the best the story 
must be imperfectly told. Of the official rolls, many are 
incomplete or wholly missing, but enough remain to 
show that of a population of about fourteen hundred 


70 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


people, according to the estimate of Dr. Cotton Tufts, 
made within two years after the close of the war, the 
town sent into the various departments of military 
service, upon the calls of the State and continental 
authority, at least two hundred men, one in seven of its 
total inhabitants; and these must have embraced very 
nearly all of the able-bodied men.’ It is true that the 
terms of service were very short in many instances, but 
however short, the burden of such a large number must 
have been enormous. 

The number who perished upon the field of battle or 
died in the service cannot be ascertained, but probably 
not less than thirty or forty, since a list remains of fif- 
teen from the soldiers of the South Precinct alone. The 
amount of expense attending the payment of the men 
for wages, bounties and support, also for army supplies, 
it is almost impossible to estimate, owing to the fluctuat- 
ing value of the currency, but the various votes already 
quoted give some idea of its sum. 

Of the officers sent into the service from this town, 
honorable mention is made of Gen. Solomon Lovell, 
who was in command of the Hastern Military District, of 
which Boston was the headquarters. He was also in 
active service in the Rhode Island campaign in 1778, 
and his brigade did efficient work in the battle before 
Newport, in which the general was noted for his cool- 
ness and bravery. He was also the military commander 
of the unfortunate Penobscot expedition of the following 
year, which was unsuccessful, not from any fault of 
his, but from the want of co-operation on the part of 
the fleet under command of Com. Saltonstal, who was 
afterwards cashiered for cowardice and inefficiency. 
Among the other officers may be named Capt. Thomas 
Nash, who served under Washington during the siege 


‘See Appendix F. 


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of Boston, and was officer of the day on the night when 
Dorchester Heights were taken possession of, Capt. 
Joseph Trufant, Capt. Samuel Ward, Capt. Asa White, 
Lieut. Er Cushing, who was with Arnold in the Canada 
expedition, Lieut. Samuel Kingman, Lieut. Thomas 
Vinson, Lieut. David Joy, Lieut. Asa Dyer and others. 
The record is one of which Weymouth has no reason 
to be ashamed, although, at times, the work languished 
and the men refused to go. Money came slowly or not 
at all, yet the times were such and the demands so many 
and great that its ability was not suflicient to meet 
them. It must also be borne in mind that this town 
was not alone in these deficiencies, but was even more 
prompt than many, and probably equal to the foremost. 
The fact stated, that the town sent into the field fully 
two hundred men, of whom probably nearly a quarter 
perished, tells a story that it will be difficult to over- 
come. Hardly a family, or very few, if any, but had one 
or more representatives in the field duri ing some part of 
the great struggle, and some ii oeieds its whole 
duration. The town was also peculiarly fortunate in 
having for its leaders men of such ability and judgment 
as those whose names have been mentioned, Dr. Cotton 
Tufts, Gen. Solomon Lovell, Major James Humphrey 
and Deacon Nathaniel Bayley, men who were wise in 
council, skilful and brave in the field, and untiring in 
their efforts to promote the interests of their country in 
the momentous struggle in which it was then engaged. 
Some of the public papers prepared by these men in 
their official service are models of political documents, 
and will compare favorably with the best of that day. 


iz SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


CHAPTER IV.1 


Recovering from the Effects of the War — Work-House — Local Matters 
— Small-Pox — Norfolk County— Attempt to divide the Town — 
Business Enterprises — Post-Office— War with England — Alarm at 
Cohasset — Town Lines — Manufacturing Companies discouraged 
— Surplus Revenue — Anti-Slavery Resolutions — Town Records — 
Town Hall— War of the Rebellion — Opening Scenes — Twelfth 
Regiment — Raising Troops — Military Records — Bounties — Thir- 
ty-fifth Regiment — Town Bonds and Seal — Forty-second Regiment 
— Contributions — Difficulties — Fourth Heavy Artillery — Final 
Attempt to divide the Town — Soldiers’ Monument — Two Hundred 
and Fiftieth Anniversary — Water Question — Fire Department — 
Growth of the Town. 


RECOVERING FROM THE EFFECTS OF THE WAR. — 
The process of recovery from the desolations occasioned 
by the war was slow. The losses had been too great, 
the wounds too deep, and the exhaustion too complete 
to be made good at once; hence, there was great 
depression in trade, for there was no money upon which 
to transact business. The drain of men had been so 
severe that it was many years before the gap thus occa- 
sioned was so far filled that the ordinary duties could 
be done with comparative ease. The evils resulting 
from a currency depreciated until its value became but 
nominal, continued the burdens of taxation far beyond 
their natural limits, and thus there was stagnation and 
depression. Nor were these physical evils the only 
sources of difficulty; those of a moral nature, resulting 
directly from habits contracted in the army, were a 
calamity of far more terrible character; and not one was 


1 The material for this chapter is gathered mainly from the town records, 
and may be found under the appropriate dates. 


i an ieee 


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so fearful and far-reaching in its effects as that of the 
excessive use of intoxicating liquors, which had become 
well-nigh universal; and in consequence, large numbers 
of well-to-do families, who, before the war, were in 
comparative wealth and ease, became reduced, and were 
obliged to sell the estates that the war had left to them, 
to supply the demands of an exhaustless appetite. 
Hence, in the course of the following generation, a vast 
number of the estates in town changed hands. Nor 
has the effect of this wholly ceased even at the end of a 
full century from the close of the war, but is still felt in 
its hereditary power, by multitudes of the present gen- 
eration, who have inherited this unnatural appetite from 
their ancestors. 


Workx-Hovss.— For years, therefore, the inhabitants 
were obliged to struggle for a bare maintenance, and 
were in no condition to prosecute business enterprises 
or carry on the pursuits of learning; and it was a score 
of years before the natural resources of the town began 
to be developed by the enterprises of the citizens. Dur- 
ing the later years of the war the town, after various 
attempts, succeeded in building, in 1779, a work-house 
near the centre of its territory, not far from Tirrell’s 
mill, for the accommodation of the poor, who had in- 
creased to such a degree as to require special attention; 
and this house was used for that purpose until the 
erection of another building for the same purpose, at 
Weymouth Landing, in 1809. 


Locat Marrers. — A few items of interest occur 
upon the records from time to time before the close of 
the century, among which are the following: March 12, 
1787, the town officers took the oath of allegiance agree- 
able to a resolve of the General Court; May 7, 1787, 
Dr. Cotton Tufts was chosen a delegate to the Conven- 


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tion in Boston, second Wednesday in January, to con- 
sider the constitution or form of government of the 
United States of America; April 5, 1790, the town 
voted to allow their representatives five shillings per 
day agreeable to the practice of other towns; and March 
14, 1791, the town clerk was directed to read the laws 
of the Commonwealth at the next meeting after he 
receives them. 


Smati-Pox. — At a meeting held Sept. 11, 1792, the 
town refused to permit inoculation for the small-pox, 
and March 11, following, permission was granted for 
the erection of a hospital for that purpose agreeable to 
law, under direction of the selectmen. 


NorFrotk County.— After the war, the question of 
a new county was frequently raised and various action 
taken, sometimes favorable and sometimes opposed, but 
the matter was finally determined by the General 
Court, and the towns of Suffolk County southerly from 
Boston were set off and formed into Norfolk County 
_in 1765. This, however, does not seem to have suited 
the good people of Weymouth, for, Aug. 26, of that — 
year, a committee was appointed to draw up a peti- 
tion to the General Court, praying to be set off from 
Norfolk County and to be reannexed to Suffolk, but 
the movement was unsuccessful, and Weymouth has 
remained to the present time a part of Norfolk County, 
although the attempt was afterwards renewed, the 
reason alleged being that the shire town was too far 
away. 


ATTEMPT TO DIVIDE THE Town.—In 1796 the 
division of the town was again proposed, this time by 
the North Precinct, and a petition presented to the 
General Court for that purpose. The feeling ran very 


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high, the North Precinct being almost unanimously in 
favor, and the South as decidedly opposed. For the 
next half a dozen years the matter was in constant agi- 
tation in public and in private, in parish meeting and 
in town meeting, and the town was so nearly divided 
upon the subject that the votes were sometimes in 
favor and sometimes against. At that time, about the 
year 1802, according to a canvass made for the pur- 
pose, the population was found to have increased to 
1803, 965 of whom lived in the North Parish and 838 
in the South; the ratable polls in the North were 211, and 
in the South 201; two fifths of the land was in the North, 
and three fifths in the South; of the money at interest, 
the South had $22,950, and the North had $20,133." 
The Senate voted in favor of a division, but the House 
refused, and the matter was referred to the next 
session, March 3, 1803, which was equivalent to an 
indefinite postponement of the whole subject. Thus 
the question has remained to the present, with spas- 
modic attempts from time to time to revive it, but 
never with much prospect of success. 


1 Private papers of Dr. James Lovell, who was an active participant in 
the movement. The petition and remonstrance are preserved among his 
papers, also an act of incorporation for the new town as proposed. The 
following statistics were also prepared to accompany these: — 


29 Marcu, 1802. 


Inhabitants of the Town of Weymouth . - : : 3) e808 
Ratable Polls . . . : ‘ 412 

Length of the Town 9 to 10 Miles, presi 23 Miles. 

Tnhabitants of the North Parish - . : : : , 965 
Ratable Polls . : : : . ‘ . : 211 

Money at Interest by last ccalasnine - ‘ ° : . $20,133 
Including 2 of the number of acres of Eaad! 

Inhabitants of the South Parish . : . . . ° : 838 
Ratable Polls . - . : . : - : 201 

Money at Interest by last elaaen : : ; . » $22,950 


Including 2 of the number of acres of Land 


76 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


Business ENTERPRISES. — With the increase of pop- 
ulation and wealth there came also a revival of business 
enterprises, and soon after the beginning of the nine- 
teenth century a new era of prosperity dawned upon 
the town, commencing at Weymouth Landing, at the 
head of tide-water on Fore River, and gradually 
extending over other parts of the town. In 1805 a 
turnpike was built through Weymouth, opening a more 
direct communication between Boston and Plymouth, 
by which the village at the Landing was largely the 
gainer. Under the lead of Capt. Samuel Arnold, 
Levi Bates and others, various branches of mechanical 
industry were started, and a new life infused into the 
community. Within a few years a large number of 
buildings were erected within a radius of half a mile. 
Many of them, in magnitude and value, have hardly 
been surpassed to the present day. Navigation was 
resumed, and quite a brisk trade carried on between the 
town and Boston by means of sailing packets, which 
ran regularly; and it was in these days that shoe man- 
ufacturing commenced, which has since grown into 
such vast proportions. 

In 1800, March 10, there is found for the first time 
upon the records the warrant for the town meeting 
entered in full, a custom that has been continued ever 
since; and under date of May 11, 1801, are found the 
qualifications of voters at that time, who were to be 
twenty-one years of age, and to possess a freehold 
valued at sixty pounds, or one yielding an income of 
three pounds (free suffrage had not yet become the law 
of the land). 

The town, which was always conservative, did not 
look altogether with favor upon the new enterprises, 
but viewed with jealous eyes the proposition to open 
new roads through its borders and construct bridges 
across the rivers, and went so far (Feb. 3, 1803) as 


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to choose a committee to oppose them before the com- 
mittee of the General Court, which had the matter 
under consideration,—such men as Cotton ‘Tufts, 
Eliphalet Loud and Major John White being fore- 
most in the opposition, — but the roads and_ the 
bridges were built, and the town was the better for 
them. 


Post-Orricr. — In 1804, Feb. 6, the town instructed 
the selectmen to petition the Postmaster-General to 
establish a post-office at or near the head of navi- 
gation at Fore River. This village, although the 
youngest in town, was already the most important. 
The answer to this petition was the establishment of 
the first post-office in Weymouth. In 1809 the new 
work-house at the Landing was completed, costing 
about sixteen hundred dollars, and was used for the 
accommodation of the town’s poor until the purchase 
of the present town farm, in 1839. March 12, 1810, 
the selectmen and the physicians of the town were 
appointed a committee to superintend the inoculation 
With cow-pox. 


War with Enauanp. — During the war with Great 
Britain, in 1812-15, many of the young men of the 
town engaged in the service by land and sea, but the 
action of the town shows very little movement in con- 
nection with the subject, there being but four votes 
standing upon its records relating to the matter. May 
21, 1512, the town voted to each enlisted soldier a 
bounty of five dollars, and ten dollars per month pay 
while in actual service; and June 30, 1814, it was voted 
to make the pay of non-commissioned officers and pri- 
vates, now or hereafter in the service, equal to fifteen 
dollars per month, and the same to those called out 
upon the alarm at Cohasset, and who remained there 


78 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


until legally dismissed. A committee of safety was 
also chosen, to consist of the selectmen (three) and six 
others. On the 7th of November the town voted twelve 
hundred dollars to pay the soldiers and build a maga- 
zine. 


ALARM AT ConassetT. — The nearest approach to 
actual hostilities that the town experienced during that 
war was upon the occasion of this “ alarm at Cohasset,” 
which occurred on a Sunday, Adjt. Cushing notifying 
the militia in the meeting-houses while the people were 
attending divine service. It was reported that a land- 
ing had been effected from an English ship-of-war that 
was cruising along the coast, committing many petty 
depredations, and that there was necessity for imme- 
diate assistance. The infantry and artillery companies 
from Weymouth responded at once, but the alarm was 
a false one and there was no need of troops. 

Mechanical industry being then in its infancy, and 
needing the services of only a part of the men, numbers 
of these had entered the mercantile marine, and at 
the opening of the war, this branch of service being 
paralyzed, many of them found employment in the navy 
and upon privateers. 

A. change appears upon the records in May, 1818, 
with respect to the qualification of voters, —an income 
from freehold estate of ten dollars, or such an estate 
valued at two hundred dollars, being required, and an 
age of twenty-one years. 


Town Linss.—In the beginning of the third vol- 
ume of the town general records there is a full de- 
scription of the town lines, as measured by James 
Humphrey, Esq.,’ in 1794, probably the most correct 


1 Appendix D. 


a ete at es 


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SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 719 


and reliable of any to be found upon any record! 
Aug. 21, 1820, a committee was appointed to oppose 
the petition of the Hingham and Quincy turnpike to 
the General Court to have the allowance paid to vessels 
passing through their draw-bridges removed. 


MANUFACTURING COMPANIES DISCOURAGED. — In 
the years 1822 and 1824 committees of manufacturing 
companies were looking over the State in search of the 
most desirable water privileges, with a view of select- 
ing a location, and Weymouth Back River appears to 
have been preferred. In the former year, Aug. 12, 
Samuel Hubbard and others had so far decided in favor 
of this locality, that they requested of the town the 


1 The following is a copy of the township lines taken from the record 
of James Humphrey, Esq., from measurements made by him in 1794: — 

Line between Hingham & Weymouth, Beginning on the line at the 
south corner of Weymouth. 

1. N.13, E. 188 Rods. Spruce Tree W. H. 

2. N. 14, E. 132 Rods. Road by Smith’s. 

Nore. — After running 32 Rods North, 14 East, marked a spruce W. H.; also marked another 
spruce, 

3. North 114, E. 80 Rods. 

4, fs 14, E. 26 Rods. Meeting house N. 81 W. 

5. North 143, E. 100 Rods. 

6. Br 3h, Ee 988. * Road beyond Binney’s. 

Pa “« 183, E. 17 ‘* then turning and following a river called 
Fresh River to the sea. Distance 4 miles 251 rods from Abington (on the 
line) to Fresh River. 

Line between Weymouth & Abington, Beginning at the south corner 
of Weymouth. 

S. 74, W. 46 rods to the road. 

S. 72, W. 110‘ 8.75, W. 20 rods, S. 693 W. 49 rods. 

Saco aso. 58. 66,° Ws 20° ~S.'70; W. 45° °% 

ait wie ene We le *’) 8.69; W. 320 6 

Src ereomes(a, WwW. to“ §. 69, W. 160)» 

Abington Line 1000 rods (3 miles & 40 rods). 

Line between Weymouth & Braintree & Randolph, Beginning at the 
Smelt Brook near the Bridge. 

Course 8. 14, W. to the southwest corner of Weymouth. 

Line against Braintree 3 miles 182 rods. 

: c - Randolpn a," | P18» 6 


5 300 


80 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


privilege of purchasing the alewife fishery, the only 
serious difficulty; but the town, valuing a small present 
income more highly than a large one in prospect, refused. 
Again, April 5, 13824, Gen. W. H. Sumner and others, 
impressed with the value of the water privilege, offered 
the town two hundred dollars per year for ten years, 
agreeing to make a sufficient fishway by which the fish 
could ascend into the pond above, to employ a capital 
of one hundred thousand dollars, and pay a parish tax 
to be divided between the three parishes. But the town, 
with strange short-sightedness, again refused. Had 
better counsels prevailed, Weymouth might now be 
what Lowell is. On May 2, 1825, Gen. Sumner again 
renewed his request, with a still more favorable propo- 
sition, but the town would not consent.’ 

In 1831 the report of the expenses of the town was 
printed for the first time. 


Surpius Revenue. — In 1836 the general govern- 
ment found itself in the anomalous condition of an 
overflowing treasury, and a large sum amounting to 
many millions was distributed among the States for 
their use as a loan. Massachusetts distributed its 
share among the several towns, and Weymouth, in 
1837, after one of the most hotly contested struggles 
in its history, having called no fewer than eight meet- 
ings upon the matter, divided its share among the 


1 This proposition was: — 

1. To pay the town $1,000 for the fish right. 

2. To leave to a mutual reference to say what the fish right is worth, 
and to abide its decision. 

3. To erect a proper fishway, satisfactory to a commissioner appointed 
by the governor and council, or the Court of Common Pleas, who shall 
have authority to settle all difficulties that may arise between the town 
and the proprietors of the water privilege. 

The town voted to accept the third proposition, but difficulties were 
thrown in the way and it was never carried out. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 81 


inhabitants, pro rata, taking notes therefor, which 
was in reality a perpetual loan without interest, for 
on March 16, 1868, the town voted to destroy the 
notes, amounting to 96, 146.40, they being outlawed 
and worthless. 


ANTI-SLAVERY ReEsoL_utTions.— Soon after this 
time the anti-slavery agitation commenced, and an 
earnest, determined body of its friends were found 
among the citizens, and so vigorous and successful 
were their efforts, that a strong sentiment was created 
in the town in favor of the movement, so strong that 
when, in 1842, George Latimer, a fugitive slave, lay 
in Boston jail, at the instance of his alleged master, 
James Bb. Gray, of Virginia, a series of indignant 
resolutions were passed at the meeting held Noy. 14, 
protesting against the act. 

In 1837 another movement was made by Jacob Perkins 
and others toward the improvement of the water privi- 
lege at Hast Weymouth, in the interest of iron manu- 
facturers, which, after long and tedious negotiations and 
litigations, resulted in the establishment of the Wey- 
mouth Iron Company, which has proved one of the most 
important business enterprises of the town. 


Pay or Town Orricrers.— At the March meeting, 
in 1843, it was voted to pay town officers one dollar per 
day for their services, the clerk to have no pay for town- 
meeting days. This seems to have been the beginning 
of regular payments for this purpose, but an advance 
from time to time has increased the sum to three times 
its original amount. 

In 1847 a strong effort was again made for a division 
of the town, but hike that of fifty years previous, it proved 
unsuccessful, the vote on the question being taken by a 
committee going from house to house, with the following 

6 


82 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


result: 460 in favor and 465 against, 72 not voting and 
56 not found; of the nays, 359 were in the South Parish. 
This agitation was renewed again in 1850 with a similar 
result. 

On Nov. 12, 1850, strong, denunciatory resolutions 
against the fugitive-slave law were passed, and on March 
10, succeeding, the town voted that they be expunged 
from the record, which was accordingly done by writing 
across their face. Thus the record stood until March, 
1880, when the latter vote was rescinded, and the record 
stands as originally made in favor of the resolutions and 
as the voice of the town. 


Town Recorps. — The original town records being 
badly worn and in a very dilapidated condition, the 
selectmen were instructed to have them transcribed, also 
to look up the books belonging to the town, have them 
catalogued, and to procure a safe in which to keep them. 
The first and last clauses of the vote were carried into 
effect, but that relating to the catalogue remained unat- 
tended to.’ 

And again on March 13, 1854, a series of strong 
anti-slavery resolutions stand upon the records as the 
expression of the town. 


Town Hati.—In 1852, in view of the want of a 
proper place for holding town meetings, and for quarters 
for town offices, the town hall was built on the westerly 
side of Washington Street, at the corner of Middle 
Street, and very near the geographical centre of the 


1The date of the earliest book of records now ia possession of the 
town is not known with certainty, but is probably that ordered to be 
purchased March 7, 1669-70. Its records, however, date back to 1642, 
and perhaps earlier, as some of the entries are not dated. The town 
records are probably as fullas those of other towns, and in a fair state of 
preservation. 


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SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 83 


town; a plain, inexpensive structure, but which has 
inswered the actual necessities of the town in that 
respect for over thirty years. 


War or THE REBELLION.— As will be seen, the 
records are very bare of interest, other than that which 
attaches to the ordinary but necessary business of the 
town, until the stirring days of 1861. The long-con- 
tinued quarrels in Congress upon the slavery question, 
each year growing more intense and bitter, had culmi- 
nated in a marshalling of the contending parties and the 
election of a Republican President. The crisis was 
brought about by accident, each party believing, until 
the actual collision, that the other would give way and 
not force matters to an extremity. But the attack upon 
Sumter, and the call of President Lincoln for volunteers, 
decided the question in favor of war. The spirit of the 
people was aroused to the highest pitch and the greatest 
enthusiasm prevailed. 

A public meeting of the citizens was called at once, 
and the organization of a military company for actual 
service commenced. Volunteers for what was after- 
wards Company H, Twelfth Regiment of Massachusetts 
Volunteers, were enlisted; the company was soon filled, 
and made choice of James L. Bates for captain, whose 
after-record was the brightest in the town’s military 
history... He passed through the various grades of 
service, and at the close of the war wore worthily the 
honorable title of brevet brigadier-general. His regi- 
ment saw the hardest service, and fought in twenty-eight 
battles. 

On the 29th of April a special town meeting was 
ealled, at which five thousand dollars was voted to equip 
this company and for other necessary expenses connected 


1 Appendix D. 


84 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


therewith. Each married man was to receive fifteen 
dollars per month and each single man ten dollars, while 
in actual service under command of its officers; the same 
to be paid to others who should hereafter enlist. June 11, 
1861, the selectmen were directed to furnish necessary 
aid, not exceeding fifteen dollars per month, to the wife, 
and children under sixteen years of age, of men enlisted 
by the town in the service; also to other near relatives 
who might be dependent upon them at the time of 
enlistment. 

On the 10th March, 1862, ten thousand dollars was 
appropriated for aid to the families of volunteers in the 
field, and the poll-tax of last year’s volunteers was also 
remitted. 


Minirary Recorps. — The selectmen were instructed 
“to cause arecord to be prepared and kept of all the 
Weymouth soldiers engaged in the service of the gov- 
ernment, with such details as may be obtained with 
respect to them and their service, names, ages, residence, 
and such particulars as may be necessary to a full knowl- 
edge of them and their service in the war.” 

Within the first year of the Rebellion, Weymouth had 
put out for aid to families of soldiers over fifteen thou- 
sand dollars, something over one third of which was to be 
reimbursed by the State; and in order to guard against 
unforeseen and sudden emergency “Union Guards” 
were formed, for whose supplies and necessary expense 
the town also paid in the same time nearly a thousand 
dollars more. 


Bounties. — During the summer of 1862, the urgency 
for soldiers became so great and the call so persistent 
that the town, upon the report of a committee appointed 
for the purpose, voted to pay a bounty of one hundred 
and fifty dollars to each inhabitant who should enlist 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 85 


within ten days (July 25) as a volunteer in the United 
States service for three years, unless sooner discharged, 
under the call of the governor, as per general order 
No. 26, to be paid on being mustered in, volunteers for 
one year to be paid one hundred dollars; and nineteen 
thousand dollars was appropriated for the purpose. ~ 
Upon the spur of this incentive, a second company was 
speedily raised, which was mustered into the service 
Aug. 12, 1862, as Company H, Thirty-fifth Regiment 
Massachusetts Volunteers. Benjamin F. Pratt was 
chosen captain, who was promoted through the several 
grades of the service, and at the close of the war was 
brevetted as brigadier-general. This regiment and the 
T'welfth saw very hard service in the Army of the Poto- 
mac, and their losses were very severe. On the 19th of 
August the town extended this offer to all who should 
enlist in the town’s quota, whether inhabitants or not. 


Town Bonps anp SEAL. — On the 4th of November 
fifteen thousand dollars was appropriated for aid to the 
families of soldiers who were inhabitants of the town 
when enlisted. At the same time it was voted to issue 
town bonds not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, at 
five per cent, and March 24, 1863, the selectmen were 
instructed to procure a corporate seal, with the legend, 
“Town of Weymouth, Mass., Incorporated 1635,” for 
the use of the town upon its bonds and other documents, 
which was accordingly done. 

In the fall of that year a company of nine-months’ 
men were enlisted, and mustered into the service Sept. 
13, as Company A, Forty-second Regiment Massachu- 
setts Volunteers, under the command of Col. Burrill. 
Hiram 8. Coburn was chosen its captain. 

On the 21st of July, 1863, the town voted three 
dollars per week for aid to the families of volunteers 
for one year, to fill up the town’s quota, in addition to 


86 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


the sum paid by the State, and the same amount for 
a second year, provided they continue in the service so 
long; and on Novy. 23, one thousand dollars was piaced 
at the disposal of the recruiting committee, who were 
to receive no pay for their services. 


Contrisutions.— At the annual meeting, March 21, 
1864, the town voted to raise twenty-five thousand dol- 
lars for State aid, and subsequently, April 9, it was 
voted to refund the contributions made by citizens for 
fillmg the town’s quota of men under the calls of the 
President, Oct. 14 and Feb. 1, provided the contributors 
agree in writing to apply the same towards furnishing 
the men called for March 14, 1864; and six thousand 
five hundred dollars was appropriated for the purpose. 
The recruiting committee was also instructed to solicit 
subscriptions of money, to be used in raising men to 
fill the present quota. On the 2Uth of May ten thou- 
sand dollars was voted for recruiting under the last 
call. 


DirFicuLTiEs. — On the 8th of June the town voted 
to pay one hundred and twenty-five dollars to each 
volunteer recruited under any call of the President 
this year, or in anticipation of any future call, this 
enlistment. to be made under the direction of the chair- 
man of the board of selectmen. ‘There seemed at this 
time to be great difficulty in answering the calls of the 
President, and so serious was the emergency that the 
selectmen resigned in a body, but were afterwards per- 
suaded to withdraw their resignations. It appeared, 
also, that the town was justified in making serious 
complaint of the manner in which the enrolment of 
those liable to military duty was made, as appears by 
the following resolves: “'That the enrolment of this 
town is fully twenty per cent larger than the average 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 87 


towns in the district, large numbers of whom are unfit 
to be enrolled, and that the town request an equitable 
enrolment. That the town believes their selectmen 
and assessors to compare favorably with those of neigh- 
boring towns, and feels aggrieved that they should 
have been entirely ignored in the matter of enrolment, 
while those of other towns have been appointed to that 
duty.” 

As the time approached for the expiration of the 
term of service of the T'welfth Regiment, the selectmen 
were directed to proceed to Boston and receive Com- 
pany H of that regiment, and to invite those members 
of the Eleventh Regiment who enlisted from this town 
to assist in this duty. In the summer and autumn of 
this year, a fourth company was enlisted for one year, 
and mustered in as Company G, Fourth Heavy Artil- 
lery; Andrew J. Garey, captain. Many of these were 
re-enlistments of members of the Twelfth, Thirty-fifth 
and other regiments whose terms of service had expired. 
This company was stationed upon the fortifications near 
Washington, and saw but little active service. 

On the 8th of November the town appropriated twelve 
thousand dollars for bounties, not to exceed one hun- 
dred and twenty-five dollars to each man counted in 
Weymouth’s quota under the next call. March 20, 1865, 
the town voted to borrow thirty thousand dollars on its 
bonds at six per cent, to be sold as required; and on the 
22d of May the town voted to refund the money con- 
tributed by individuals to aid in filling the quota of the 
town in accordance with the law of April 25 of this 
year; a list to be prepared and payment to be made in 
town notes, due Sept. 1, 1866. On the 21st of Decem- 
ber a committee was chosen to consider the subject of 
a soldiers’ monument and report. A vote was also 
passed to pay two years’ aid to all who had not received 
it; also, to pay each man drafted July, 1863, who fur- 


88 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


nished a substitute, whether the latter remained in the 
service or not, payable in town notes in three years 
with interest. 

This completes the record in brief of Weymouth dur- 
ing the war, as far as it appears upon its books; but 
before a correct judgment can be formed as to what the 
town actually did in the great struggle for existence 
that the country carried on during the four years from 
1861 to 1865, it will be necessary to go somewhat more 
into detail, and to ascertain more nearly the number of 
men sent into the field and what became of them. It is 
well known that the town answered all of the calls 
made upon it, but what was their measure? As before 
noticed, there were enlisted four full companies; these 
‘were sent into the service and performed all the duties 
required of them, which in many instances were neither 
few nor light; besides these, enlistments were made for 
all the various branches of the service, infantry, artil- 
lery and cavalry, in more than fifty different organiza- 
tions, as well as many in the navy. The whole number 
actually contributed by the town probably will never be 
accurately known, but upon its records are the names 
of nearly eight hundred; without question enough have 
been omitted to carry the total above that number, or 
nearly one in ten of its population. 

Of these, ninety-eight have their names upon the 
soldiers’ monument as having been killed in battle or 
died in the service. Beside these, and this list is by 
no means complete, more than a hundred are reported 
as wounded, and nearly forty taken prisoners, many of 
whom died in rebel prisons. And of the whole num- 
ber, only eight, less than one in a hundred, are re- 
ported as deserters, and some of these returned to their 
regiments. This certainly is an honorable record and 
one of which the town may well be proud; and when 
the history of Weymouth in the Rebellion is written, 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 89 


which will some day be a fact, it will be made sure that 
this town is entitled to a high place among the thou- 
sands that contributed cheerfully and liberally towards 
the accomplishment of the same noble purpose. 


Finan ATTEMPT TO DIVIDE THE Town. — Several 
attempts were made to revive the question of a division 
of the town, and March 19, 1866, a vote was actually 
passed to do this (two hundred and sixty-nine to two 
hundred and thirty-nine) upon the northerly line of 
the fifth and sixth school districts, and a committee of 
one appointed from each district to carry the vote into 
effect; but the matter appears to have been dropped, to 
be again called up March 4, 1878, when the selectmen 
and three from each ward, twenty in all, were consti- 
tuted a committee to take the whole matter into consid- 
eration and report. This report was made at the next 
annual meeting, held March 3, 1879, and was unanimous 
that it was inexpedient to divide the town at that time, 
and the report was accepted.’ 


bad 


1 The town of Weymouth is divided into four principal villages: Wey- 
mouth, or the ‘‘ Landing,” as it is called, at the head of tide-water on 
Fore River, South Weymouth, East Weymouth, and North Weymouth, 
or “‘ Old Spain,’? a name by which it has gone from time immemorial, 
and whose origin cannot now be traced, besides several smaller villages, 
as Lovell’s Corner, between East and South Weymouth, and the Old 
North, central between the Landing, East Weymouth and Old Spain. 
The larger villages are upon most points separated from each other by 
wide tracts of unsettled territory, and are governed largely by local 
interests and influences. Hence there has been from the first a great 
deal of friction in the management of the town’s business, amounting 
often toalmost open quarrel. This has been conspicuously the case in the 
parish and school matters, and the result has been the various attempts 
to divide the town. This want of harmony, growing out of its local 
divisions, has also impaired largely the influence of the town, which, 
from its population, wealth and business, should be one of the most 
important in the State. These remarks are intended to explain much of 
the action that appears upon the records which would otherwise be diffi- 
cult to understand. 


90 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


Soutprers’ Monument. — After various votes and 
appropriations, a soldiers’ monument was erected upon 
Burying Hill, in the old North Cemetery, upon the 
easterly side of the highway, consisting of a plain 
granite obelisk, suitably commemorating the names and 
services of those who perished in the Rebellion in defence 
of their country, and was dedicated in 1868.’ 

‘On the 21st of March, 1870, it was voted to divide 
the town into five wards, for convenience in carrying 
on the necessary public business. This was accord- 
ingly done, and it remains thus to the present day. In 
1871, March 6, the first appropriation was made for the 
celebration of Memorial Day, and the vote has been 
annually repeated ever since. 


THe Two Hunprep AND Firrieta ANNIVERSARY. 
— At the annual meeting held March 2, 1874, a com- 
mittee was chosen to make arrangements to celebrate 
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the set- 
tlement of the town, and the same committee was 
also authorized to engage some one to prepare and 
publish a history of the town. The first vote was 
carried into effect on the 4th of July of that year, by 
a public meeting upon King Oak Hill, with appro- 
priate services, among which was an historical address 
by Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Esq., whose great- 
grandmother, Abigail Smith, wife of John Adams, 
second President of the United States, inferior to none 
of the honorable women mentioned in the national his- 
tory, was born and reared within a short distance of the 
spot where the address was delivered. The occasion 
was one of great interest, being the second of the 
kind held in Massachusetts, and was celebrated with 


‘For a full description of this monument and of the services at its 
dedication, see the Weymouth Gazette and New England Genealogical 
Register of corresponding dates. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 91 


much enthusiasm by a large number of the citizens of 
this and other towns, who were cordially invited to the 
entertainment," 


WatTER Question. — The last important business 
found upon the town records is upon the question of 
supplying the town with water from Great Pond. 
Many and urgent had been the calls demanding this or 
‘some other means by which the inhabitants and the 
rapidly growing necessities of the town should be fur- 
nished with an ample supply of water. Efforts were 
put forward to that end, and a charter was obtained 
from the Legislature of 1882-3, of sufficient powers to 
cover the undertaking. On the 18th of September, 
1888, a town meeting was called, at which it was voted, 
by a large majority, to accept the Water Act, and on the 
25th of the same month a board of water commissioners 
was chosen, and instructed to cause to be made thor- 
ough surveys and estimates of all work and costs pro- 
posed by the Act, and to make a report of the same at 
a special meeting to be called for the purpose. ‘This, 
one of the most important enterprises ever undertaken 
by the town, has not reached its present stage without 
violent opposition. The unfortunate situation. of the 
town in respect to its various villages, with their often 
conflicting interests, and the jealousies occasioned 
thereby, has shown itself in this matter, as in nearly 
every important movement that has ever been proposed, 
and its success, however much it may be desired, is not 
yet assured. (The final action assuring it has since 
been taken, and the work is in progress.) 


1 This was probably the most interesting gathering ever held in the 
town, and was participated in by the citizens generally, resident and 
non-resident, and was also attended by many invited guests from other 
places. The proceedings were published in full, by the town, with the 
address of Mr. Adams, and is one of the most important additions to its 
historical material yet presented to the public. 


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Fire Department. — Until quite recently the town, 
officially, had made no attempt to afford its citizens 
protection against fire. "What had been done was the 
work of volunteer companies, or of fire districts in which 
the town government had no part. A half-century or 
more ago a small hand-engine, called the “Aquarius,” 
manned by a company of volunteers, was located at 
Weymouth Landing, which was for many years the 
only protection against fire, other than the primitive © 
hand and bucket arrangement. Some twenty years 
later several fire districts were erected in town, and 
hand-engines provided for them. At that time the 
town attempted some action in the same direction, and 
went so far as to choose a committee to purchase four 
engines and the necessary apparatus to go with them, 
for the four principal villages. This was April 29, 
1844 ; but on the following May 7 this vote was 
rescinded, and the matter remained in its previous con- 
dition until March 5, 1877, when a committee of three 
from each ward was chosen to organize a “fire depart- 
ment.” In accordance with the report of this commit- 
tee, the town, on the 15th of May, voted to purchase three 
fire-engines, hose-carriages, etc., two hook-and-ladder 
trucks and fifteen hundred feet of hose; also to build 
three engine-houses and construct five reservoirs, appro- 
priating $18,000 therefor. On the 30th of January, 1878, 
a vote was passed making a further appropriation of 
$1,100 for another hand-engine. On May 2, $2,000 was 
voted for an engine and hose-carriage. In March, 1880, 
a steam fire-engine was purchased for Ward III., at a 
cost of $3,200, and in 1883, $4,200 was appropriated 
for a steamer for Ward II. Thus it will be seen that 
the town has made a beginning in this important mat- 
ter, which only needs to be supplemented by the intro- 
duction of water from Great Pond, as proposed by 
recent votes, or from some other source, to afford really 
effective protection. 


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GrowTH oF THE Town.—It may be of interest to 
note the gradual growth of the town expenses from the 
beginning, when almost every separate item was voted 
upon in open town meeting and there were almost no 
general appropriations, until the present time, when 
the annual expenditure of the town is not far from 
$100,000. On May 23, 1751, is noted the first general 
appropriation for the poor, amounting to £20. The 
highways were provided for by personal labor, and it 
was not until after the year 1800 that anything like 
regular, stated appropriations were made. Beginning 
with the year 1820, the average sums appropriated for 
expenses, other than schools and highways, were for the 
ten years from 1820 to 1830, about $1,400; for the 
succeeding decade, from 1830 to 1840, about $2,000; 
from 1840 to 1850, about $4,000, an increase of one 
hundred per cent; from 1850 to 1860, about $7,000; 
from 1860 to 1870, about $15,000; and from 1870 to 
1880, about $25,000, an increase in half a century of 
nearly eighteen hundred per cent, while the increase of 
population was but little more than four hundred per 
cent. 

The expenditure for schools, aside from the build- 
ings, beginning at about $100, had risen in the year 
1800 to about $500. From 1800 to 1810, the yearly 
average was about $700; from 1810 to 1820, about 
$1,000; from 18.0 to 1850, about $1,000 to $1,200 Gn 
1821 there were 895 children of school age); from 
1830 to 1840, from $1,200 to $2,000; from 1840 to 
1850, from $2,500 to $3,500 (in 1842 there were 1,099 
children of school age); from 1850 to 1860, from 
$3,500 to $7,000; from 1860 to 1870, from $8,500 to 
$15,000; from 1870 to 1880, from $20,000 to $26,000, 
an increase since 1821 of 2,500 per cent, while the 
number of school children had increased but about 125 
per cent (the census of 1880 showing 2,025 children 
of school age). 


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The increase of population for the first century and 
a half was very small indeed, the estimate for 1643 
being about 1,000. The next estimate is from the 
Egerton manuscript in the British Museum, and dates 
about 1675, in which the number of houses set down 
for Weymouth, in round numbers, is 250; allowing 
five to a house, this would give a population of 1,250. 
In 1750 the estimate was 1,200. A census in 1765 
showed 1,258, while that of 1776 indicated 1,471, and 
in 1790 this had declined to 1,469. In 1500 quite a 
gain was shown in a total of 1,803. The following 
ten years there was an increase of but 86, while in 
1820 the number had increased to 2,407. From this 
time the gain was rapid, the census of 1830 giving a 
population of 2,837, while that of 1840 was 3,738, 
and that of 1850 stood at 5,369. The succeeding ten 
years showed an increase of over forty per cent, giving 
a total of 7,742. In 1870 the population was 9,010, 
and in 1880, 10,570, a gain in the present century of 
almost five hundred per cent. 

The appraised value of the real property was in 
1853, $1,138,999; and of the personal, $619,483: a 
total of $1,758,482. In 1875 the real estate was valued 
at $3,863,523; and the personal, $2,107,711: a total of 
$5,971,234. This was the last State valuation. 

These statistics show, in a comparative degree, the 
wonderful development of the town in material resour- 
ces, and also its rapid progress in mechanical pursuits, 
while the indications are not wanting that promise a 
long continuance of its prosperity. 


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CHAPTER V. 
Ecclesiastical History — Congregational Churches— The First Church. 


Tue First Cuurou.— There is no record of the or- 
ganization of this church. It is simply recognized by 
its name at the earliest mention as an established in- 
stitution well known to contemporaneous writers. It 
has already been stated that with the Gorges Company 
in 1623 came Rey. William Morrell, a clergyman of 
good reputation in the Church of England, of culture 
and learning; that he remained in the plantation for 
perhaps a year and a half, and then gave up his charge, 
returning to England by way of Plymouth. He was 
an amiable gentleman of refinement and remarkable dis- 
cretion, well suited to have the charge of an English 
parish, but scarcely adapted to the needs of a New Eng- 
land settlement at that day. Mr. Morrell brought with 
him a commission from the Ecclesiastical Court in Eng- 
land to exercise a kind of superintendency over the 
churches already existing or which might be established 
here. This commission was to empower him with 
authority over all churches in the colony, and as “all” 
meant only Plymouth, over which he was hardly in a 
position to claim jurisdiction, he obeyed the dictates of 
his good sense and refrained from any attempt to exercise 
his authority. 

The conditions under which the settlement at Wey- 
mouth was made rendered it unnecessary to organize a 
parish, for it already existed as a matter of fact, and 
the church was a branch of the Church of England in 
this remote corner of its kingdom; and evidently to the 


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care of his parish Mr. Morrell devoted himself so long 
as he remained. The religious element does not seem 
to have been predominant in this settlement, and the 
surroundings and influences being such as to give but 
little promise of future benefit, Mr. Morrell returned to 
his own country, leaving the remnant of his flock to the 
mercy of circumstances. In the following year, 1624, 
according to “ Prince’s Annals,” which, from the facilities 
in the hands of the compiler, seems. fairly conclusive, 
there came in another company, to join the planters at 
Wessaguscus, from Weymouth, England. These were 
probably a mixed party, with the independent element 
predominant, since it is stated that they brought with 
them a non-conformist minister by the name of Barnard, 
who remained with them until his death. Nothing 
more is known of him or of his administration over this 
people. There was no need to organize a church, since 
one after the Episcopal form already existed. It simply 
changed its “rector” for a “minister.” There was no 
need even to throw off the authority of the bishop, 
since there was no officer of that order to claim the 
rule, and thus for a dozen years affairs remained, 
the continual influx of planters of various religious 
ideas preventing, probably, any very decided opinions 
from becoming predominant. 

There was unquestionably some kind of a house of 
worship erected, probably a rude, temporary structure, 
corresponding to the dwellings of the people. No 
mention, however, is made of this, which in a few years 
was replaced by a more convenient and substantial 
building erected upon Burying Hill. 

In the summer of 1635 a large addition was made 
to the little settlement by the arrival of a company of 
about a hundred people, under the leadership of Rey. 
Joseph Hull, sailing from Weymouth, Hng., but gath- 
ered from the county of Somerset and the neighbor- 


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hood. Mr. Hull came in the interest of the Episcopacy, 
being a graduate of Oxford of 1612, and as recently as 
1632, rector of Northleigh, Devon; but finding that the 
condition of the plantation was such as hardly to justify 
an attempt to establish the Episcopal form of worship in 
the immediate vicinity of so many dissenters, and prob- 
ably with a leaning in the latter direction himself, he 
fell in with the current and became a moderate dis- 
senter. There having been no minister here since the 
death of Mr. Barnard, the situation seemed favorable 
for the selection of Mr. Hull to fill that office, and he 
undoubtedly preached here for a time as minister of the 
church, but other elements were at work which soon 
developed themselves as an opposition. There were 
remnants of the Gorges Company still favoring their 
old order, while there were many new-comers from 
Dorchester, Boston and other places, who favored the 
Puritans and the authority of Gov. Winthrop. These 
latter seem to have been a strong party, and were evi- 
dently dissatisfied with Mr. Hull, for they soon gave a 
call to Mr. Thomas Jenner, of Roxbury, who, in the 
early part of 1636, came into the settlement and became 
its minister, while Mr. Hull seems to have removed 
temporarily to Hingham. 

There does not appear to have been the utmost har- 
mony among the inhabitants, for in the following year 
a council of the elders was called to “reconcile the 
difference between Mr. Jenner and his people,” and the 
difficulty was so serious that the governor and his 
council were compelled to step in and arrange matters. 
This trouble offered a favorable opportunity for a third 
party to throw itself mto the breach in the hope of 
becoming possessors of the field. These, in 1637, gave 
an invitation to Rev. Robert Lenthal to become their 
minister. Mr. Lenthal had recently come from England, 
where many of the Weymouth people had been under 

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his ministry; hence the invitation, which he did not 
hesitate to accept. He, also, remained here for several 
years, but was in constant trouble and difficulty, and in 
1639 was tried for heresy before a council held in Dor- 
chester, but the result was unsatisfactory, as it settled 
nothing. An attempt seems to have been made at this 
time to form another church, the difficulty was so great, 
but without success. 

The Weymouth Church, then, in 1638-9, found itself 
in this position. Mr. Hull claimed to be the minis- 
ter, and occasionally exercised the office, with a strong 
body of adherents. Mr. Jenner still remained, with 
the official favor to sustain him; while Mr. Lenthal 
preached as circumstances would permit, and had a 
large following. This condition of things in a village 
no larger than Weymouth of that date could not be 
supported, and in the latter year, 1639, Rev. Samuel 
Newman, a graduate of Oxford of 1620, and a man of 
excellent reputation, was invited to come in as a harmo- 
nizer. How this was to be effected does not now ap- 
pear; nevertheless he came, and there was displayed the 
extraordinary phenomenon, for those days, of four min- 
isters of the same denomination contending for a single 
pulpit in one small community. This, however, did 
not continue, for Mr. Hull and Mr. Lenthal retired in 
1659, and Mr. Jenner in 1640, leaving Mr. Newman in 
possession; but the conflicting elements were too many 
and discordant for his peaceable nature, and after a min- 
istry of about four years he, with a large body of his 
friends, removed to Rehoboth, leaving the church with- 
out a pastor. He was succeeded by Rev. Thomas 
Thacher, who was settled Jan. 2, 1644, and remained 
pastor of the church for twenty years, when he removed 
to Boston, and was afterwards installed as the first pas- 
tor of the Third Church (Old South). He was the first 
minister ordained in Weymouth, all of his predeces- 


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sors having received their ordination in England. He 
had an excellent reputation’ as a preacher, and was 
also an able physician, a man of talent and education. 
Under his ministrations the people, by whom he was 
beloved and revered, enjoyed a long period of rest and 
prosperity, very pleasant after the vexations of the 
previous years. 

During the pastorate of Mr. Thacher the old meet- 
ing-house, which stood upon Burying Hill, on the 
westerly side of the present highway, and nearly op- 
posite the site of the soldiers’ monument, had become 
so much in need of repairs that the townsmen, Dec. 
14, 1652, were directed “to do what was necessary 
to make it more comfortable, and prevent any further 
decay.” In the early days of the town, until it was 
divided in 1723 into two precincts, it constituted one 
precinct, and all parish business was transacted in town 
meeting. The minister was hired and his maintenance 
provided by the town; and as it possessed at this time 
no parsonage, the minister provided his own dwelling, 
which, upon his leaving, was purchased by the town 
and sold to his successor, with the condition that should 
he leave or die without children, the town should have 
the privilege of buying the property. 

Mr. Thacher was followed in the ministry by Rey. 
Samuel Torrey, who was ordained Feb. 14, 1665. Rev. 
Emerson Davis says he preached there from 1656, as 
colleague of Mr. Thacher. He was certainly there 
Nov. 28, 1664. Mr. Torrey was son of Capt. William 
Torrey, born in England in 1632; educated at Har- 
vard College, but owing to an extension of the course 
of study for a year he, with some of his associates, 
became dissatisfied and left the institution without grad- 
uation. He remained pastor of the church in Wey- 
mouth until his death, April 21, 1707, a period of over 
forty-two years. He was a man of great and acknowl- 


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edged ability, of excellent reputation as a preacher, and 
in 1684 was chosen president of Harvard College, 
which position he declined. Three times he preached 
the election sermon,— an honor never before conferred. 

In 1667 the meeting-house was again repaired, and a 
bell procured and hung. Up to the year 1671, although 
there is much upon the records concerning the minis- 
ter’s rates and providing for his maintenance, there is 
no amount stated for his salary. This year the matter 
was thoroughly discussed, and arrangements were made 
to pay Mr. Torrey fifty pounds per year, and five mem- 
bers of the precinct became bound for its payment, ten 
pounds per man. This was to be paid in money, or its 
equivalent of eighty pounds in current pay. In 1673 
ten pounds in wood (twenty cords) was added, and in 
1680 his salary was increased ten pounds. In 1682 
the meeting-house had become so old and decayed that 
the town voted to pull it down, and a new one was 
erected upon land bought of Capt. John Holbrook, the 
site of the present meeting-house. This house was 
forty-five feet by forty, and twenty feet between joints, 
with four gable-ends, costing in all two hundred and 
eighty pounds. In 1697-8 the town voted an addi- 
tion of twelve pounds to the minister’s salary. 

After the death of Mr. Torrey a call was given to 
Mr. Peter Thacher of Boston, a grandson of Rey. 
Thomas Thacher, the former minister, at a salary of 
seventy pounds and a “convenient settlement.” It was 
a custom of those days to grant the minister upon his 
settlement a certain sum to pay his expense of removal 
or “setting up housekeeping,” equal usually to one or 
more years’ salary. This did not appear to be quite 
satisfactory, and the sum was increased ten pounds, 
with his firewood added. This call was accepted, and 
Mr. Thacher was ordained Noy. 26, 1707. He was a 
popular preacher, and very highly esteemed by his 


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people, among whom he lived in great harmony until 
1718, when a prospect of a call to Boston introduced a 
disturbing element, in consequence of which he was 
dismissed, and afterwards settled, as colleague of Rev. 
Mr. Webb, over the North Church, Boston. He was a 
graduate of Harvard of 1696. His manner of leaving 
Weymouth was very unsatisfactory, and the cause of 
much ill-feeling on that account. During the ministry 
of Mr. Thacher the town purchased a parsonage for the 
minister of Zachariah Bicknell, which has been a per- 
manent establishment in the parish since that time. 

On March 27, 1719, the town concurred with the 
church in a call given Feb. 26 to Mr. ‘Thomas Paine, of 
Barnstable, to be their minister upon a salary of ninety 
pounds and the use of the parsonage. He was ordained 
Aug. 19, 1719. He remained the pastor until April 15, 
1734, when he was dismissed. It was during his min- 
istry, in 1723, that the south part of the town was set 
off as the Second Precinct. This withdrew a large part 
of the population and property, so that it was with 
great difficulty that the parish expenses were met, and 
in consequence much trouble arose with Mr. Paine 
during the later years of his service, which was eventu- 
ally the cause of his leaving. For several years his 
family had resided in Boston, while he performed his 
official duties in Weymouth. Mr. Paine graduated at 
Harvard in 1717, and was, in point of ability and 
acquirements, the equal of any of his predecessors, 
with the possible exception of Mr. Torrey. He was 
of a kind and amiable disposition, and won the affec- 
tion of his people to a remarkable degree, and had it 
not been for the unfortunate pecuniary condition of 
the parish there would have been no occasion for his 
leaving. 

In August, 1634, after the dismission of Mr. Paine, 
a call was extended to Mr. William Smith, of Charles- 


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town, to become the minister, at a salary of one hundred 
and sixty pounds and three hundred pounds settlement, 
the latter to be paid one hundred pounds annually for 
three years, all in bills of credit. This invitation was 
accepted, and on the first Wednesday of December he 
was ordained as pastor of the First Church and Parish 
in Weymouth, which office he retained until his death, 
Sept. 17, 1783, in his seventy-seventh year. He was a 
graduate of Harvard of 1725. The following epitaph 
upon his gravestone gives, probably, a correct estimate 
of his character: “Asa Divine he was eminent As a 
Preacher of the Gospel eloquent and devotional in life 
he exhibited the Virtues of the Religion which he had 
taught in Death felt its Supports and closed a long and 
useful life with hopes full of immortality.” Prepossess- 
ing and conciliatory, he soon became a favorite, espe- 
cially among the young. He was lively and animated 
as a speaker, and through his long ministry of nearly 
forty-nine years—the longest on the record of the 
church —he was highly esteemed and beloved. He, 
however, is best known as the father of three daughters, 
who married three men, all of whom became eminent. 
Hon. Richard Cranch married Mary, the eldest; Abi- 
gail became the wife, of John Adams, the second 
President of the United States, and was the mother of 
John Quincy Adams, the sixth President; the third 
daughter, Elizabeth, married Rev. John Shaw, of 
Haverhill, a man of standing and reputation. 

He was minister through the Revolutionary war, with 
its stirring scenes, and died just as the day of peace 
was dawning upon the land. The difficulties of the 
times, with a divided town and a fluctuating currency, 
made it often hard to raise the amount necessary for 
his support, and the records are largely filled with 
endeavors to arrange this matter. At the commence- 
ment of his ministry, in its second year, he had a long 


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and severe sickness, which disabled him from service 
for the time; and later on, in 1769 and 1770V, he was 
again disabled by the same cause, and for several 
months his pulpit was supplied by James Blake, A.B., 
of Dorchester, a graduate of Harvard, of 1769, a young 
man of rare excellence and promise, who came to 
Weymouth to teach school, and after a little time, 
supplied the pulpit during the illness of Mr. Smith, in 
which position he died, Nov. 17, 1771, within a month 
of his twenty-first birthday. A volume of his sermons 
was afterwards published. 

On the 23d of April, 1751, a great disaster befell the 
parish in the loss of its meeting-house by fire. The 
loss was a severe and heavy one for the people at that 
time, especially as the parish was passing through the 
most fatal epidemic that has ever been known in the 
history of the town, one in ten of the population per- 
ishing with the terrible “throat distemper,” among 
others Major Adam Cushing, the foremost man of his 
day in town and in the parish. They were not dis- 
couraged, however, but set to work with energy and 
determination; and within a year a new house was 
ready for use, which was occupied by the parish eighty 
years. It was with the commencement of Mr. Smith’s 
ministry that the earliest records now in possession 
of the church had their beginning, and these are 
exceedingly meagre, other than the noting of statistics, 
admissions to the church and baptisms, with a few 
marriages and deaths. 

After the death of Mr. Smith there was a vacancy in 
the ministry for more than four and one half years, 
when from various causes they were unable to obtain a 
pastor. Rev. Huntingdon Porter preached for a time 
in the year after Mr. Smith’s decease. On the 24th of 
May, 1784, the parish voted a call to Mr. Samuel Shut- 
tlesworth, of Dedham, in which the church concurred, 


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put after supplying the pulpit until Aug. 1, he declined 
the position. On the 22d of November the parish 
voted unanimously to invite Mr. Asa Packard, of 
Bridgewater, to become their minister, but he also 
declined. 

Ever since the division of the town into two pre- 
cincts, there had been trouble between them concerning 
the parsonage property, which culminated in a suit, in 
1785, by the South Parish for claimed rights, which 
were denied by the North. The issue of the contest 
was in favor of the latter. During the summer and 
fall of that year, Rev. Mr. Judson supplied the pulpit; 
but on the 16th of January of the following year 
(1786), the parish made choice of Mr. Israel Evans to 
fill the vacancy in the pastorate. This invitation he 
accepted under date of 24th of March; but some 
unfortunate reports reaching his ear before settlement, 
he felt obliged to decline, which he did in a letter dated 
26th of September. Soon after this Mr. Jacob Norton 
was hired to preach, and on the 12th of March, 1787, the 
committee was instructed to engage him for a further 
time. His ministrations proved so acceptable, that on 
the 9th of April it was voted to give him a call, at 
a salary of ninety pounds per year, his firewood and 
two hundred pounds settlement, fifty pounds per year 
for four years (the latter instead of parsonage, which 
had been first voted). Mr. Norton accepted the call, 
and was ordained 10th of October, 1787. He was a 
graduate of Harvard, of 1785 or 1786, a man of strong 
mental powers, with thorough intellectual training, 
and a keen controversialist. He excelled as a classical 
scholar, and had a high reputation as a Hebraist. 
During his ministry he was frequently engaged in 
theological discussions, which he sustained with great 
learning and ability. He was, however, changeable in 
his religious belief, particularly during the later years 


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of his ministry, which was the cause of great trouble in 
the church and parish, and eventually led to a dissolu- 
tion of the pastoral relation, which took place 10th of 
July, 1824, after a service of nearly thirty-seven years. 
He was a man of irreproachable character, and highly 
esteemed for his amiable qualities. 

On the 23d of August, 1824, a hearty call was 
extended to Rev. Josiah Bent, Jr., of Milton, by the 
parish to become its pastor, at a salary of six hundred 
dollars and his firewood. This call he accepted, and 
he was ordained, Oct. 13, 1824, to the pastorate of the 
First Church of Weymouth, which position he held 
until Oct. 10, 1835. His ministry was a very successful 
one, one hundred and twenty-nine persons having 
united with the church during the nine years. While 
Mr. Bent was the pastor of the church, the meeting- 
house, having become old and out of repair, was taken 
down in 1832, and a new one erected upon the same 
spot, which, with some important changes, has been 
occupied by the parish until the present time. This is 
the third meeting-house built upon this spot. Mr. Bent 
was a graduate of Harvard, of 1822, a man of deep piety, 
in excellent standing among his associates, and holding 
a warm place in the affections of his people. 

After the dismission of Mr. Bent, Mr. John C. Phil- 
lips, of Boston, was employed to preach during the 
month of November, 1833, which he did with such 
effect that a unanimous call was given him by parish 
and church, at a salary of seven hundred dollars per 
year, which he promptly accepted, and was ordained on 
the 18th of December, 1833. He remained pastor until 
Nov. 13, 1837, a ministry of a little over four years, the 
shortest in the history of the church since the settlement 
of Rey. Samuel Newman, about two hundred years be- 
fore. Mr. Phillips was a graduate of Harvard, of 1826, 
and of Andover Theological Seminary. He also com- 


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pleted a full course of legal study with Hon. Samuel 
Hubbard, Judge of the Supreme Court of Massachu- 
setts. He was a fine scholar, a strong thinker and 
a close reasoner. His rare social powers made him 
a general favorite, and it was with deep regret to his 
many friends that circumstances compelled him to ask 
his dismission. 

The interval was very short after Mr. Phillips left 
until the call to Rey. Joshua Emery, Jr., of Fitchburg, 
Jan. 2, 1838, at a salary of eight hundred dollars per 
annum. He accepted the invitation, and was installed 
on the 25th of the same month. ‘This is the first instal- 
lation unaccompanied by ordination in the history of the 
church for two hundred years. His pastorate extended 
until April 1, 1873, a period of over thirty-five years, 
when he was dismissed at his own request, feeling with 
the advance of years that the burden of the parish was 
too great for his strength. His ministry was a long 
and successful one, during which one hundred and 
eighty-five were admitted to the church. He was a 
forcible and energetic speaker, especially gifted in 
prayer, and the estimation in which he was held by his 
people may be measured by the length of his pastorate. 
He was also a valuable citizen, being strongly inter- 
ested in education, for many years the chairman of the 
school committee, performing at times nearly the whole 
duties of the board. At the beginning of his service 
the parish built a new parsonage house, that now used 
for the purpose, upon the site of the old house, some 
parts of which had stood there for one hundred and 
fifty years. During many years the social meetings of 
the church had been held in the hall of the schoolhouse, 
opposite the meeting-house, for want of a chapel or 
vestry, a need that was greatly felt, and which was 
provided for in 1856 by the erection of a neat and 
commodious chapel by the church, and attached to 


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the rear of the meeting-house, with which it com- 
municated. 

On the 28th July, 1873, the parish concurred in the 
unanimous call of the church to Rev. F. P. Chapin as 
pastor, at a salary of fourteen hundred dollars, and the 
use of the parsonage. This call was accepted, and Mr. 
Chapin was accordingly insfalled, and remains in the 
pastoral office at the present time. An important event 
in the history of the parish took place in 1875, when it 
fell heir to a legacy of ten thousand dollars, for the “ sup- 
port and maintaining of the present religious doctrines 
of the parish,” by the will of Mr. Joseph Loud, lately 
deceased, who for many years was an active member of 
the church and parish, and who thus gave substantial 
evidence of his good-will. 7 

This ancient church has suffered greatly from circum- 
stances beyond its control: first, in the establishment of 
the Second Church, in 1728, its hundredth birth-year, 
whereby a large number of its active supporters were 
withdrawn; and again, in 1811, upon the formation of 
the Union Church of Weymouth and Braintree, a large 
part of whose members came from this church; still 
later, in 1822, its membership was once more greatly 
depleted by the withdrawal of many to form a Methodist 
Church in East Weymouth; and last, in 1852, the most 
serious loss of all, in the removal of fifty-one members 
to form the Pilgrim Church in Old Spain. Thus the 
mother has been exhausting her resources and impover- 
ishing herself in the establishment ofa family of vigorous 
and prosperous children; but it has been at a serious 
cost to her, since the removal of so many members, and 
the decline of business in the village near, have reduced 
it from the one only church in the town to the smallest 
of six of the same fellowship. Yet she still keeps on her 
way and bravely sustains the burden that is thus cast 
upon her, doing her work with diligence and fidelity. 


108 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


CHAPTER VI. 


Congregational Churches (continued): Second Church, Union Church of 
Weymouth and Braintree, Union Church of South Weymouth, 
Church at East Weymouth, Pilgrim Church — Methodist Episcopal: 
Church at East Weymouth, Church at Lovell’s Corner — Universalist: 
First Church, Second Church, Third Church — Baptist: First Church 
—Roman Catholic: Parish of St. Francis Xavier, Parish of the 
Immaculate Conception, Parish of the Sacred Heart, Parish of St. 
Jerome —Protestant Episcopal: Trinity Parish. 


Tue Second CoNGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND PaAr- 
IsH In SoutH Werymoutu.'— The causes that led to 
the separation of the town into two precincts, and the 
formation of the Second Church, have been already 
alluded to. The long distance and poor roads, with 
other causes of dissatisfaction, gave rise to the deter- 
mination of the dwellers at the South to separate; while 
the opposition, steady and persistent, on the part of the 
old parish and church, served only to solidify the deter- 
mination, which resulted, in 1723, in an act of the 
Legislature establishing the Second Precinct, and on 
the 21st of June the parish met and organized. On the 
15th of July a call was given to Mr. James Bayley to 
settle with them, at a salary of seventy-six pounds, and 
a settlement of one hundred and thirty pounds. A 
church, however, was not formed: until the following 
18th of September. A meeting-house had already been 
erected, and Mr. Bayley had been preaching there 
probably for a year or more. He accepted the call, and 
was ordained Sept. 26, 1723, as pastor over this people 

? 


1The facts relative to this church and society have been largely fur- 
nished by Rey. George F. Stanton, the present pastor. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 109 


and remained such until his death, Aug. 22, 1766, a 
period of forty-three years. He was a native of Rox- 
bury, a graduate of Harvard, of 1719, and served his 
first and only pastorate in Weymouth. During his 
extended ministry there were added to the church in all 
two hundred and seven persons. He seems to have 
been much beloved by his people, and was held in 
estimation by the neighboring parishes. 

On the 15th of January, 1767, after the death of Mr. 
Bayley, Mr. Ephraim Briggs received a call from the 
parish, in concurrence with the church, to become their 
minister, but with so strong opposition that he declined. 
Through that season the pulpit was supplied by five dif- 
ferent ministers, each preaching several Sabbaths in suc- 
cession; and in March, 1768, a call was given to a Mr. 
Fuller, which was declined; after which Mr. Simeon 
Williams, of Raynham, preached for several months, and 
then received a call, which he accepted, and was ordained 
Oct. 26, 1768. Here he remained until May 31, 18.9, 
the date of his death. He was born in Easton, and was 
a graduate of New Jersey College, of 1765. His ministry 
extended over a period of more than fifty-one years, the 
longest ever recorded in the town. In 1784 and 1785, 
the old meeting-house was torn down, and a new one 
erected. 

Upon the repeated request of Mr. Williams for a junior 
pastor, the church, on Dec. 14, 1818, called Mr. William 
Tyler to that position, and on the 24th of February 
following he was ordained; but the death of Mr. 
Williams, so soon after, left him sole pastor. Mr. Tyler 
remained as pastor of this people until Oct. 17, 1831, 
when he was dismissed, at his own request, after a minis- 
try of nearly thirteen years. For more than a year the 
church was without a pastor; and on Noy.8, 1832, a call 
was extended to Rey. Charles I. Warren, who accepted 
the invitation, and was installed Jan 1, 1833; but, after a 


110 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


brief pastorate of little more than a year and a half, he 
was dismissed Aug. 13, 1854, at his own urgent request, 
and much to the regret of his people. It was four years 
after this before the office was again filled, and this 
period was one of great trouble that nearly proved fatal 
to the church. The difficulty was so serious that on 
account of religious differences the church seceded from 
the parish, worshipping in a hall, and a new society, the 
Edwards Society, was organized. The breach, however, 
was healed in 1837, and the church and parish united in 
the old meeting-house, although an unsuccessful attempt 
had been made to form another church. During the 
separation, a call had been extended to Rev. Joshua 
Emery, Jr., which he declined. In 1836, the society 
gave Rey. Mr. Biscoe a call, which he also declined. 
In August, 1838, after the reunion of the church and 
society, Rev. Wales Lewis received a call, which he 
accepted, and was installed on the i2th of September. 
During his ministry there was serious trouble, which 
increased to such a degree as in the end to cause his dis- 
mission, which took place in June, 1847, after a pastor- 
ate of about nine years. During the troubles in the 
pastorate of Mr. Lewis, in 1842, and as a consequence 
of them, a strong party drew off and formed the Union 
Church and Society, which became a permanent organi- 
zation. 

After the dismission of Mr. Lewis, Rev. Joshua 
Leavett preached for a time, and an effort was made to 
give him a call, but without success. There was felt 
very great discouragement as to their future prospects, 
which gave way to a feeling of hope when Rev. James 
P. Terry accepted their call, and was installed July 6, 
1848. Matters at once began to assume a more cheer- 
ing aspect, so much so that in the year of his settlement 
the present parsonage house was built for the benefit of 
the parish; and about five years later, in 1853, the | 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. TUL 


present meeting-house was erected, at a cost of about 
fifteen thousand dollars, and the church and society 
stood once more upon firm ground. In February, 1863, 
Mr. Terry’s health gave way, and he was obliged to 
suspend his ministrations. He was granted leave of 
absence for six months, during which time the people 
worshipped with the Union Church, under Rev. S. H. 
Hayes. In March of the following year, 1869, finding 
that his health did not improve, Mr. Terry felt obliged 
to ask to be relieved from his pastoral relation, and his 
request was reluctantly granted. 

About the same time a plan fora union of the two 
societies and churches was arranged, and an agreement 
made to adopt it, but it failed to be carried into exe- 
cution. Rey. Dr. Labaree preached for about a year and 
a half, when the present pastor, Rev. George F. Stanton, 
began his work here. He received a call to settle with 
this people, which he accepted, and was installed 27th 
October, 1870; and it was in the third year of his minis- 
try that the church and society celebrated their one 
hundred and fiftieth anniversary, with appropriate ser- 
vices, amid much rejoicing. The church is yet strong 
and vigorous, notwithstanding the years it has survived 
and the struggles it has encountered, and bids fair to 
live far into the future. 


Tre Unton Rexicious Society or WeyYmMoutH AND 
Braintree.’ — This society and the church connected 
with it, although its meeting-house is located a few rods 
over the line in Braintree, is comprised so largely of 
Weymouth people that it fairly deserves a place in this 
record. Its members were drawn mainly from the first 
churches of Weymouth and Braintree, who, on account 


‘The sketch of the Union Church of Weymouth and Braintree is 
compiled mainly from the records of the church and society. 


Hl SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


of the considerable distance of those two meeting- 
houses and the increasing importance of the village of 
Weymouth Landing, coming from a rapid influx of 
population and the commencement of business enter- 
prises, desired better accommodations for religious 
services. The society was formed March 13, 1810, and 
the Hollis Street Church, Boston, then about to be 
taken down, was purchased, its material removed by 
vessel to its present location in East Braintree, where it 
was rebuilt, and with many alterations, remains still as 
the house of worship of the people. The society was 
incorporated 21st February, 1811, and a church organ- 
ized Aug. 14 of the same year. A call was at once 
given to Mr. John Frost, who declined it. In the fol- 
lowing November, Mr. Daniel A. Clark was invited 
to a settlement. He accepted the invitation, and was 
ordained on the following 31st of December. After a 
short pastorate (less than two years), owing to the 
disaffection of a few members of the church and congre- 
gation, and a difficulty in raising his salary, Mr. Clark 
resigned, and was dismissed 20th October, 1813. After 
a year or more of financial distress, during which the 
pulpit was supplied from Sabbath to Sabbath, in Janu- 
ary, 1815, Mr. Jonas Perkins, of Bridgewater, was hired 
for three months, and before that time had expired he 
was given a call, which was accepted, and he was 
ordained June 14 of that year. After a long and 
prosperous ministry of forty-six years, at the age of 
seventy, in accordance with long-expressed plans, he 
resigned his pastorate, and the connection was severed, 
15th October, 1860. He remained in the village, taking 
an active interest in the affairs of his old church, until 
his death, which occurred June 26, 1874. After the 
resignation of Mr. Perkins, a call was extended to Rev. 
HK. Porter Dyer, of Hingham, Sept. 28, 1860, which he 
declined. In the following December, Rey. Lysander 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. TTS 


Dickerman, of Gloucester, was invited to the vacant 
pulpit, which invitation he accepted, and he was in- 
stalled Jan. 17,1861. After a very stormy pastorate of 
about six and a half years, during a part of which a 
bitter quarrel existed between the pastor and about half 
of the congregation, which in the end seriously threat- 
ened the very existence of the church and society, his 
official connection with them closed in July, 1867. The 
results of this quarrel were very disastrous, so that they 
had no pastor for about two years, when matters began 
to assume a better aspect, and April 1, 1868, Rev. A. 
A. Elsworth, of Milford, was hired to supply the pulpit, 
which he did very acceptably for about three years. 
After this time, affairs having been somewhat accommo- 
dated and extensive alterations made in the meeting- 
house, a hearty call was extended to Rev. Lucien H. 
Frary, of Middleton. This call was accepted, and Mr. 
Frary was installed April 13, 1875. He is now in the 
tenth year of his ministry, with a united people and a 
strong and prosperous society, that has, through his 
exertions, just relieved itself from a heavy debt incurred 
in the remodelling of the house, and which had seriously 
crippled it in its work. 


Union Cuurcu AND Society oF Souta Wey- 
mouTH.'— As before stated, the organization of this 
church and society grew out of the trouble in the 
Second Parish, from which the members of the 
new organization withdrew. The society was formed 
June 20, 1842, and the church Nov. 1 of the same 
year. The meetings were first held in Rogers’ Hall, 
until a meeting-house could be erected, which was 
effected the same year. On the 3d of July, 1843, a call 


1The materials for this sketch were furnished by O. B. Bates, Esq. 
from the records of the church and society. 


8 


114 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


was extended to Rey. George Denham, which he 
accepted, and he was installed Nov. 1. This con- 
nection was held until May, 1847, when he was dis- 
missed. .On the following 17th of November, Rev. 
Willard M. Harding, having accepted a call, was in- 
stalled, and continued his ministry until 1858, when 
he resigned, and was dismissed April 8 by a council 
which installed as his successor Rev. 8. H. Hayes, who 
retained his position as pastor over that people until 
Noy. 17, 1870, when he asked and received his dismis- 
sion. From February, 1871, to September, the pulpit 
was supplied by Rey. Henry E. Cooley. During the 
years 1870 and 1871 a new meeting-house was erected 
at a cost of forty thousand dollars, and a parsonage at 
a cost of four thousand dollars. A call was extended 
to Rey. James McLean, which he accepted, and was 
installed Feb. 27, 1872. He was dismissed May 29, 
1876. Rev. George N. Marden followed him as act- 
ing pastor, from February, 1877, to August, 1881. 
On the Ist of September of the latter year, a call was 
extended to Rey. William H. Bolster, which he ac- 
cepted, and was installed April 12, 1882. He is the 
present pastor. 


THE ConGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF HAST WeEyY- 
mMouTH.' — This church was formed from a division in 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, a majority of the soci- 
ety remaining and forming a new church, called the 
First Evangelical Methodist Church, the minority 
retaining the old organization and building a new 
house of worship. ‘The church was formed March 4, 
1843, with ten members. In 1860, Feb. 25, it changed 
from the Methodist to the Congregational form, and 


1 The data from which this sketch is compiled were gathered from the 
records by Charles B. Cushing, Esq. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 115 


joined the Norfolk Conference of that denomination. 
It is now, numerically, the strongest church of that 
order in the town. It has been obliged to enlarge its 
meeting-house, to accommodate the increased call for 
sittings. Its congregation is an enterprising and pros- 
perous one, and its list of pastors, notwithstanding its 
comparatively recent date, is altogether too long to be 
here enumerated. It has also a large Sabbath school 
connected with it. When the old society divided, the 
meeting-house was sold and torn down, and a new one 
erected upon the same spot, which remains to-day, with 
the enlargement above mentioned. 


THe Pinerim Cuurch AND Socrety or Norta 
Weymoutu.' — The growing necessities of the pros- 
perous village of Old Spain were the cause of the move- 
ment that resulted in these organizations. The society 
was formed May 14, 1851, and a meeting-house erected 
the same year. The church was organized March 11, 
1852. In May of the same year, Rev. Calvin Terry 
was called to be the first pastor. He accepted the call, 
and was installed May 18, 1852. This connection was 
a very unfortunate one, on account of long-continued 
and great dissensions with the pastor, who, after much 
trouble and difficulty, was dismissed Dec. 25, 1856. 
On Sept. 14, 1857, Rev. Charles E. Reed, of Taunton, 
was invited to the pastorate, but declined. In the 
spring of 1858, Rev. Samuel L. Rockwood accepted 
a call, and was installed March 12. His ministry con- 
tinued until July 31, 1871, when he was dismissed, 
at his own request, on account of ill health. He was 
succeeded by Rev. Louis B. Voorhees, who was or- 
dained Dec. 6, same year, and continued his ministry 


1 These materials were furnished by Herbert A. Newton, Esq., from 
the official files. 


116 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


until his resignation was accepted, July 1, 1876. On 
the 23d of November following, Rev. George Dodson, 
having accepted a call, was installed, and remained 
pastor until Dec. 23, 1879, when ill health compelled 
him to resign the active duties of his office. Rev. A. 
H. Tyler commenced his services as acting pastor, May 
17, 1880, and resigned in the spring of 1884. In 1881 
a parsonage was built. 


Tue Mernopist EriscopAL CHurRcH OF EAST 
Weymoutu.’— The first movement looking to the 
formation of a Methodist Church in East Weymouth 
was made in 1822. The trouble in the old North 
Church, consequent upon the changes in religious 
belief of Mr. Norton, the inconvenient distance from 
meeting, and the fact that a large portion of the people 
were gradually becoming restive under the severe Cal- 
vinistic creed then held by the two churches in town, 
induced a desire for more freedom in religious thought 
and belief. The first class was organized in 1823, and 
the new society erected its first meeting-house in 1825. 
The rapid growth of the parish necessitated an enlarge- 
ment of this building, which was made in 1828. During 
the first ten years of its existence, not far from one hun- 
dred members were received from the North Parish. 
About this time trouble began to show itself, and the 
desire to be removed from the higher authority of the 
Methodist Episcopal government and return to the 
ancient freedom of the Congregational Church, caused 
a majority of the people to separate from the confer- 
ence, and continue their organization as a Protestant 
Methodist Church. The minority, who preferred their 
original form, withdrew, and formed a new society, 
retaining the old name. They built their first meeting- 


1 Gathered from the records by John W. Bates, Esq. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 117 


house in 1844, and such was the increase, that they 
were obliged to enlarge the building in 1850. This 
house was destroyed by fire 13th December, 1851, and 
with its contents was a total loss. This was a heavy 
blow, from which, however, it soon rallied, and another 
house was erected in the followmg year, dedicated 
Oct. 12. This becoming too contracted for the grow- 
ing necessities of the society, was enlarged in 1864. 
This building was also burned 23d February, 1870. 
Another and the present house of worship was erected 
on Broad Street the same year, and dedicated Dec. 23. 
It has free sittings. The church belongs to the New 
England Southern Conference. The society has also 
a fine parsonage, built in 1867. ‘The present member- 
ship of the church is about two hundred and sixty. 
It has been from its organization an energetic church, 
and the centre of good influences. It has also a large 
and flourishing Sabbath school. 


Tue Mernopist EriscopaL Cuurcn At LOvVELL’s 
Corner.' — The initial steps towards the formation of 
this church were taken in the autumn of 1866, in 
recognition of a long-felt need of that growing and 
prosperous village, when Rey. D. W. Waldron, pastor 
of the Congregational Church at Hast Weymouth, 
began there on Sabbath afternoons a preaching ser- 
vice at five o’clock. This was continued as long as 
he remained pastor of the East Weymouth Church, and 
for about a year after. During the latter time, the 
neighboring ministers preached there in turn. After 
this a regular pulpit supply was obtained, until a Con- 
gregational Church was formed, on the last Thursday 
in October, 1872. Rey. Joseph C. Halliday, the first 
pastor, commenced his work there on the first Sabbath 


1 Materials furnished by Bradford Hawes, Esq. 


118 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


of the following December, and held the position until 
July, 1877, nearly five years. From that time until 
November of the same year there was no regular min- 
ister. In that month Rev. Henry P. Haylett, a student 
of Boston University (Methodist Episcopal), was en- 
gaged. During his pastorate the church changed its 
denominational connection and united with the New 
Bedford Methodist Episcopal Conference in April, 
1879, and in April, 1882, it was transferred to the New 
England Southern Conference of the same denomina- 
tion, where it still remains. Mr. Haylett was suc- 
ceeded May 1, 1880, by Rev. Charles H. Farnsworth, 
who in turn gave place, in the following year, to Rev. 
E. G. Babcock, the present pastor. A Sabbath school 
was gathered by the efforts of Rev. Mr. Waldron, in the 
spring of 1867, which has continued an active existence 
in connection with the work of the church ever since. 
This church has no meeting-house, but has held its ser- 
vices in a hall. 


Tue First UNIVERSALIST Society oF WEYMOUTH. 
— This society was organized at Weymouth Landing, 
July 21, 1836, in consequence of a desire on the part of 
many of the people of that village, then the largest m 
the town, for a wider privilege in the interpretation of 
the Bible than the belief of the Union Church would 
‘permit. Rey. Matthew Hale Smith was hired to preach 
once a fortnight in Wales’ Hall. A movement was 
soon made towards the building of a meeting-house 
with such success that a house was finished at a cost of 
six thousand four hundred dollars, including land, bell 
and furniture, and was dedicated Sept. 15, 1839. Mr. 
Calvin Gardner preached on the next and three follow- 
ing Sabbaths. Rev. John 8S. Barry was the pastor 


1 Facts supplied by J. W. Armington, Esq. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 119 


from November, 1839, to April, 1841. He was suc- 
ceeded at once by Rey. John M. Spear, who remained 
until April, 1845, when he closed his service, and was 
followed by Rev. Mr. Coffin until November of the 
same year, when Rey. Mr. Dennis supplied the pulpit. 
In 1846, Rev. Mr. Barry returned, and remained as 
minister until Jan. 1, 1850. He was then succeeded 
by Rey. Mr. Hemphill and others, for about two years, 
when Rev. D. P. Livermore was hired, and remained 
about two years. After him Rev. Mr. Davenport 
preached for a year, whose successor was Rey. Charles 
Mellen, who remained from April, 1855, to April, 1860, 
when the pulpit was supplied for a year and a half by 
Rey. D. T. Goddard. Following him there was no reg- 
ular minister until April, 1864, when Rev. Miss Olympia 
Brown was engaged, and held the position until Sep- 
tember, 1869. After an interval of two years, Rev. 
Benjamin H. Davis became pastor, and continued in 
that sani from October, 187% to April, 1873, —a 7% 
year‘and a half. Rev. L. 8S. Crosley was the next pas- 
tor, beginning his service November, 1876, and closing 
March, 1878. After him came Rev. Anson Titus, Jr., 
who began his work November, 1878, and ended April, 
18835, having charge also for the greater part of the 
time, first of the church in Old Spain, and then of that 
in South Weymouth. This society still worships in its 
original meeting-house, on Washington Street, and its 
present pastor, recently engaged, is Rev. B. F. Eaton, 
who has the charge also of the West Scituate Society. 


Tue Second UNIvEeRSALIsT Socinty oF Souta 
Weymouru.' — The first services in the Universalist 
faith in South Weymouth were held in Columbian Hall, 
in 1835, during the trouble in the Second Congrega- 


* Material furnished by H. H. Joy, Esq. 


120 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


tional Church, when Rey. Sylvanus Cobb preached for 
atime. There was then no organization, the movement 
meeting with bitter opposition, and it was was not until 
1848 that an association was formed, known as the 
* Washington Corporation,” out of which grew the 
Second Universalist Society. Rev. John Parker, the 
first regularly settled pastor, was installed in 184, and 
remained in that service for six years. During his 
pastorate a chapel was erected, in 1850. 

The next pastor, Rev. Elmer EH. Hewitt, was installed 
on Sunday evening, July 8, 1855, and retained his posi- 
tion for more than fourteen years, when he was suc- 
ceeded by Rev. Jacob Baker, who was installed in 
1869. His term of service extended over a period of 
nine years, to 1878, since which time there have been 
several pastors, — Revs. E. A. Perry, Anson -Titus, B. 
I’. Bowles, the present pastor, and others. 


THe Turrp UNIVERSALIST Society oF Nortu WEyY- 
MOUTH.’ — This society was organized Noy. 19, 1853, 
and a Sabbath school gathered on the succeeding Fast 
Day. The first minister was Rev. R. L. Killam, of 
Scituate, who commenced April 1, 1855, preaching on 
alternate Sabbaths in Harmonial Hall. His term of 
service continued for three years. During the next 
year only evening services were held, conducted by 
different clergymen, after which Rev. E. H. Hawes, of 
Stoughton, supplied the pulpit on alternate Sabbaths 
for one year, beginning May 1, 1859, and Rev. R. L. 
Killam for the summer following. 

During the ten succeeding years the services were 
conducted by clergymen of Weymouth and the neigh- 
boring towns. Rey. G. W. Skinner, of Quincy, was 
the next preacher, his work dating from April 1, 1871, 


1 Furnished by Thomas F. Cleverly, Esq. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. Tt 


and continuing one year, when he was followed by 
Rev. G. W. Whitney, of Quincy, who was pastor from 
April 1, 1872, to July 1, 1878. During his ministry a 
chapel was erected, which was dedicated Jan. 16, 1873, 
and a church of twenty-two members was formed June 
28, i874. Mr. Whitney was succeeded by Rev. Anson 
Titus, Jr., of Weymouth Landing, who preached from 
September, 1878, to July 1, 1880, when he resigned his 
position. Rey. H. A. Perry was pastor from the latter 
date to April 1, 1882; the present pastor, Rev. R. T. 
Sawyer, of Quincy, commencing his labors on Sept. 3 
of the same year. 


Tue First Baptist CourcH AND SocreTYy IN WEY- 
mMouTH.' — The first movement towards a union of the 
members of the Baptist denomination and those favor- 
ing its belief, for some kind of associated effort on 
behalf of their special views, in the village of Wey- 
mouth Landing, was made in the years 1851-2, in the 
establishment of a regular weekly prayer-meeting, and, 
also, of a sewing circle, the proceeds of whose labors 
were devoted to the renting of Union Hall, where 
preaching services were held as often as circumstances 
would permit, by the Baptist ministers of the neighbor- 
ing towns. After a little more than a year arrange- 
ments were made with Messrs. Leander P. Gurney and 
Noah Fullerton, of the South Abington Church, for 
regular preaching on the Sabbath; and, on the 13th of 
March, of the same year, a Sabbath school was com- 
menced. This state of things soon produced the desire 
for a church, which was formed on Feb. 7, 1854; but it 
was not until June 21, 1855, that the society was organ- 
ized and the congregation became fully equipped for its 


1Compiled mainly from the records of the society and the sermon of 
Rey. Gideon Cole, pastor, preached Feb. 4, 1866, at the opening of the 
new house of worship. 


122 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


work. Rev. H.C. Coombs, of Middleborough, supplied 
the pulpit for a few weeks, when it was placed under 
the care of Rev. Henry Fitz, missionary of the State 
Convention, and its preachers were mainly from the 
Newton Theological Seminary. The first pastor was 
Rey. Andrew Dunn, of Bridgewater, who commenced 
his labors April 1, 1855; and a chapel was erected, which 
was dedicated on July 12. Mr. Dunn remained as 
pastor of the church until Jan. 31, 1858, and was suc- 
ceeded on May 1 by Rey. Levi A. Abbott, of Milford, 
who continued with the people for five years, until the 
end of May, 1863. On Novy. 1, 1863, Rev. Gideon Cole, 
of Sheldonville, having accepted a call, commenced his 
work in this place. During his pastorate a new meeting- 
house was built on Washington and Broad Streets, 
nearly opposite the chapel, and dedicated Jan. 31, 1866. 
Mr. Cole was succeeded in the spring of 1871 by Rev. 
C. H. Rowe, who was followed in the autumn of 1874 
by Rev. W. C. Wright. He remained in the pastorate 
about four years, when he was dismissed, and a call 
extended to Rev. P. A. Nordell was accepted, who began 
work in the spring of 1878, which he continued until 
1882, when he resigned, and was succeeded by Rev. 
Seth J. Axtell, the present pastor. 


Roman Catuouic.' — The Parish of St. Francis 
Xavier was the first parish of this denomination, and 
embraced territorially the whole town. ‘The first priests 
of the parish were Rev. Fathers Roddan and Lynch, 
who came to the town in 1851, and the first services 
were held in East Weymouth that same year, in private 
houses. After a few months the place of worship was 
changed, and services were held in Tirrell’s Hall, at 
Weymouth Landing. In 1854, Rev. Father Roach took 


1 The facts relative to the Roman Catholic Church in Weymouth were 
gathered from various sources and carefully verified. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 123 


charge of the parish, but it was not until 1859 that the 
first church was erected, which was located upon Middle 
Street, not far below the Town Hall. Father Roach was 
succeeded, in 1866, by Rev. Father Hennigan, who re- 
mained until 1869, and in the fall of that year the church 
was burned. Rey. Father Smyth followed Father Hen- 
nigan in 1869, and soon after, the church on Pleasant 
Street was erected, in 1870. In 1873, the Parish of the 
Sacred Heart was constituted at the Landing, the tavern 
property purchased, and services held in the hall of the 
building. In 1876, a church of brick and stone was 
begun, which, when completed, will be the costliest 
church edifice in the vicinity. The basement was soon 
finished and occupied, and the audience-room of the 
church itself has been in use for a year or two. 

The Parish of the Immaculate Conception, at East 
Weymouth, was formed, and a church built in 1879, 
dedicated Nov. 23. In 1881, a parish was consti- 
tuted in Old Spain, called the Parish of Saint Jerome, 
and a church erected. Rey. Father Smyth had charge 
of all these parishes (with one or more assistants) until 
1882, when Rey. Father Millerick was placed over the 
parishes of the Immaculate Conception and Saint 
Jerome, Father Smyth retaining the other two until 
1883, when he was succeeded by Rey. Father Murphy, 
the present incumbent. 


EpPIscopALIAN— THE Trinity CaurcH aT Wey- 
MouTH LANpiInG.!— This parish was organized Nov. 
11, 1867, at the time and in consequence of the trouble 
in the Union Congregational Church, in connection with 
the Rey. L. Dickerman. Services had been held in 
Williams’ Hall, as early as July 7 of that year. On 
Sept. 10, the homestead of the late Atherton W. 


1 Furnished by Samuel W. Reed, Esq. 


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Tilden, on Front Street, was purchased, and the house 
reconstructed into achurch. These changes were com- 
pleted, and the first service held there Dec. 8, 1867, 
but the church was not consecrated until May 21, 1874. 
From March 4 to July 1 of that year, 1867, Rev. S. 
R. Slack, of South Boston, was the officiating clergy- 
man, when Rev. Mr. Burroughs was called to the rector- 
ship, which he resigned Oct. 1, 1868, and was succeeded 
in December by Rev. T. W. Street, who in turn gave 
way to Rev. F. O. Barstow, December, 1869. He was 
followed in June, 1870, by Rev. W. F. Lhoyd, who 
resigned in 1873, and was succeeded by Rev. William 
C. Winslow, who remained but one year. The next 
rector was Rev. Samuel R. Slack, in June, 1874, who 
retained that position until April 12, 1877, when he re- 
signed, and was followed by Rev. John A. Jerome, who 
occupied the position until March, 1883. In November, 
of this year, Rev. Charles L. Wells became officiating 
clergyman, who has since resigned. 


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CHAPTER VII. 


Educational Institutions — Public Schools — Weymouth and Braintree 
Academy — Newspapers — Weymouth Historical Society — Social 
Libraries — Mutual Library Associations — Tufts Library. 


Pusiic ScnHoous.'— Next in importance to the ec- 
clesiastical interests come those of education, of which 
the public schools form the prominent feature, and for 
these the town has always taken special care. In the 
early days of its history the records are exceedingly 
brief, and only slight and incidental mention is made of 
many thing's upon which now there is great need of fuller 
information. The first notice of matters connected with 
schools occurs on March 10, 1651, when the town voted 
to pay Capt. Perkins ten pounds for six months’ school- 
ing. Capt. William Perkins was a prominent man in 
town in thosedays, being “townsman,” and probably 
held other important offices. in subsequent history it 
was found that it was to men of this character that the 
town intrusted the education of its children. 

It is a singular fact, and one which shows that the 
interest of the town in education was not confined to 
its own borders, that the second mention should be 
that of a subscription of ten pounds sixteen shillings 
and sixpence by Weymouth to Cambridge College, 
im 1652. After Capt. Perkins, the next schoolmaster 
named is William Chard, who was also town clerk, 


1 The portion of this sketch relating to the public schools of Weymouth 
has been carefully compiled from the town, parish and other records, 
and is believed to contain as full an abstract as could be desired fora 
work of this character. 


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and attended to the drawing up of such legal instru- 
ments as the necessities of the people demanded. He 
is first mentioned in that capacity April 10, 1667, 
when the town voted him three pounds and ten shil- 
lings, the rent of the flats, in addition to his other pay. 
On the 25th of August, thirty shillings was also added. 
On Nov. 29, 1669, he was engaged at ten pounds per 
year, probably employed only a portion of the time. 
He was also sexton, and the pay of both offices was 
sometimes included in one vote. On Sept. 18, 1678, 
his pay had advanced to twenty-four pounds, and the 
town was to furnish a school-room. The selectmen 
with the elders were also “to rate each pay-scholar 
for his benefit.” The next year a house and orchard 
were rented for him at forty-five shillings, and in 1680, 
the house of James Stewart was bought for forty 
pounds for the use of the schoolmaster; this was to be 
paid for by subscription, which failed, and a tax was 
laid for it. In the following year, 1681, a school-house 
was built on a part of the land bought of Capt. John 
Holbrook, the other part of which was afterwards 
occupied by the new meeting-house, erected in 1682. 
The house with the furnishing cost thirty-six pounds. 
In 1684, Mr. Chard’s salary was advanced to thirty- 
three pounds and fourteen shillings. His duties were 
“to keep a free-school and teach all children and ser- 
vants sent him to read, write, and cast accounts.” 

On Novy. 28, 1687, for some reason the town voted 
“not to continue Mr. Chard in the work of a public 
schoolmaster at the public charge, but he is at liberty 
to use the dwelling and school-house until next March 
meeting, for which he is to ring the bell and sweep the 
meeting-house.” Probably this was for want of funds, 
as he was in office during the year 1689, and continued 
a town schoolmaster until 1696, when he removed to 
Abington. Mr. John Copp was appointed to succeed 


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him, at thirty pounds per year, and he was also chosen 
town clerk the same year. Mr. Copp does not appear 
to have remained in his position quite two years. At 
the March meeting, 1697, the town voted that “ parents 
shall pay three shillings for each child sent to school 
between the ages of eight and fourteen years.” This 
was to pay in part the schoolmaster’s salary, the re- 
mainder to be made up by a tax upon all who lived 
within two miles of the school-house. By this time the 
increase of scholars was so large that the town found it 
necessary to employ more teachers, and Joseph Dyer 
was employed to teach in the school-house, with John 
King as assistant, and Edward Bate was to teach in 
his own house. To follow the precedent, now well 
established, Edward Bate was elected town clerk. 
The pay of schoolmaster was to be not over thirty 
pounds, one third of which was to be paid by those 
who sent their children to school, and the remainder by 
tax. The next year the whole was raised by tax, and 
John Torrey was employed, probably in the place of 
John King, as Edward Bate still retained his position 
the following year, 1699, and later Torrey appears as 
Bate’s assistant. 

During the summer of 1700, five women were en- 
gaged to teach school for six months, at twenty-five 
shillings each, besides the usual rate paid by those 
who sent children. On the 21st of October of that 
year Samuel Hunt, son of Col. Hunt, was hired as 
schoolmaster at fifteen pounds ten shillings in money 
for six months, or twenty-three pounds, “as the rates 
run.” In January, 1705, Ebenezer White, of Dor- 
chester, was appointed schoolmaster for half a year at 
fifteen pounds; and on March 3, 1707, Thomas Thorn- 
ton was engaged at twenty-five pounds, of fifteen pen- 
nyweights each (silver). To him, in 1709, succeeded 
John Torrey, at fifty shillings per month. In 1717, 


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school was kept in each school-house four months, and 
it seemed that now there was a school-house in the 
south part of the town. John Galt was teacher for a 
part of this year. In September, 1719, Ebenezer Rolie 
was hired for a year at forty-two pounds ten shillings, 
and Mr. Calder in 1723, at the same price. And this 
year, 1723, a new school-house was built at a cost of 
forty-two pounds seven shillings eleven pence, between 
Joseph Lovell’s and John Shaw’s. Mr. Calder taught 
two months here, and two months in the North 
school-house. In 1729 it was voted that the South 
Precinct should have a school one third of the year, 
and be at the charge of having a school-house, and 
the North, two thirds of the year. In May, 1730, 
Joseph Torrey was hired as schoolmaster at fifty 
pounds. 

After the division of the town into two precincts, a 
large part of the school business was transacted at 
the precinct meeting, the town appropriating money 
and dividing it between them according to the amount 
paid by each. The appropriations commencing in 
1733, at seventy-five pounds, had risen, in 1800, to 
five hundred dollars. A new school-house was built 
by the North Precinct in 1730, where the old one stood, 
near the meeting-house, and Ezra Whitmarsh was 
the schoolmaster. He was a graduate of Harvard, 
also town clerk and selectman, one of the fathers of 
the town. He continued his position as schoolmaster 
until 1760, teachmg sometimes in one precinct and 
sometimes in the other, according to the various votes 
of the town. During this time the precincts maintained 
their separate woman’s schools. In 1760 the name of 
David Wyre appears upon the record as_ schoolmaster, 
and in 1769 and 1770, Mr. Lemuel Cushing taught for 
about a year. Mr. James Blake, A. B., also taught a 
few months about this time. The necessities of the 


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times during the Revolutionary War rendered the rais- 
ing of money very difficult, and probably the school 
interest, among others, suffered in consequence. There 
is no other teacher mentioned by name until Dec. 11, 
1780, when Samuel Reed was engaged to teach in the 
North Precinct, “at his offer,” six shillings per week in 
money, “or its equivalent in necessaries at prices before 
the war.” 

Jan. 24, 1785, Nathaniel Bayley, Esq., was appointed 
to answer to the General Court on behalf of the town 
for neglecting to keep a grammar school; thus it ap- 
pears that the town had become a delinquent in this 
matter, but the lesson was a good one, and did not 
need to be repeated. 

After the close of the war, prosperity began to dawn 
upon the town; the schools soon felt the impetus, and 
new houses were built and new schools established 
in various parts. Samuel Reed and James Humphrey 
(5d) were employed at two pounds per week, and the 
latter to have three shillings per week extra, “he hav- 
ing been at the expense of fitting himself for a gram- 
mar-school teacher.” Both of these were men of mark 
in town, as well as schoolmasters, having been town 
clerks, selectmen, and also village notaries. Both held 
long terms of service as school-teachers, with excellent 
reputation. 

In 1796, the school system, which had been sufficient 
for the needs of the town in its earlier days, was found 
to be greatly wanting, and a committee was chosen to 
take the whole subject into consideration and report a 
new plan. This was done, and in 1799 the town was 
divided into eight school districts, substantially as it 
remained for seventy years. Hach district was to 
furnish its school-house and teacher, paying its ex- 
penses from its proportion of the school money raised 
by the town. The business was to be in the charge of 

9 


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a prudential committee-man selected by the district, but 
chosen by the town. The school money was divided, 
sometimes according to the number of families, some- 
times according to the number of scholars, and some- 
times according to the amount of tax paid, but more 
generally, a part equally, and a part according to the 
number of scholars. 

In 1810, the employment of “ Latin and Greek ” mas- 
ters was authorized, and also “English masters who 
shall teach equivalent to twelve months in the year.” 
In 1814 each district was ordered to report in detail to 
the town. In 1816, the “alewive money ” was appro- 
priated for school purposes. In 1821, a census reported 
four hundred and thirty-four families and eight hundred 
and ninety-five scholars. In 1827 the town chose a com- 
mittee of seven under a new State law, to have the over- 
sight of the schools, or the general charge and superin- 
tendency of them. This was called the High Committee. 
They examined and approved the teachers, and kept a 
close watch upon the schools to see that they were prop- 
erly taught. 

This system was retained until the abolition of the 
district system, in 1869, when this committee became 
the school committee, combining its former powers 
with those of the prudential committee. The High 
Committee reported to the town at its: annual March 
meeting, and in 1839 these reports began their pub- 
lication. In 1842, a second enumeration of the chil- 
dren of school age showed ten hundred and ninety- 
nine, an increase of two hundred and four in twenty- 
one years. In 1845, the Fourth District was divided, 
and the Ninth set off from it. In 1847, the Tenth 
District was set off from the Second, and several 
years later the Eleventh was taken from the Eighth. 
Various minor changes were made in process of time, 
but this arrangement was that substantially kept until 
1869. 


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Attempts were made at varions times looking to the 
establishment of a high school, but without success, 
until about 1852, when the Town Hall was built, in 
which a room was fitted up for that purpose, but it 
was not until the next year that the town directed the 
school committee to go forward, appropriating one thou- 
sand dollars for the purpose. For several years it was 
a matter of some doubt whether or not the school would 
succeed on account of the exceeding inconvenience of 
its location, being far away from nearly all of the 
scholars. Experiments were made, trying one school 
at the town house for a time, and then changing to two 
schools, one at the North and one at the South; and 
it was not until 1865 that the present arrangement was 
permanently adopted, that of having one school in each 
of the two sections. 

In 1859 the town voted to abolish the district system, 
and appointed a committee to take the necessary meas- 
ures to carry the vote into effect, but the following year 
a return to the old system was made. Again, in 1863, 
the same thing was voted, and in the next year re- 
scinded. Thus the matter remained in uncertainty 
until 1869, when the old arrangement was set aside and 
the present town system finally adopted. The same 
indefinite attitude was taken by the town with respect 
to the employment of a school superintendent. The 
first one was hired, in 1863, and from that time to the 
present, although a superintendent has been employed 
for the greater portion of the time, so many changes 
have been made and so uncertain the action that might 
be taken, that little benefit has been derived from the 
services of that officer. 

The treatment of the schools by the town seems at 
last to have settled down upon a more permanent basis 
that bids fair to continue, and which will raise the 
schools to a much higher plane than they have ever 


132 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


occupied. The town system appears to have little, if 
any, opposition, and the superintendency seems also to 
have become an established fact. That this is the true 
course is very evident, from the fact that the town has 
now forty-eight schools in operation, under the charge 
of fifty-four teachers, with a school population of two 
thousand and six, between the ages of five and fifteen 
years, according to the report of the year 1883, necessi- 
tating an appropriation of not far from $32,000. Of 
the schools, two are high, twelve grammar, twenty 
intermediate, and fourteen primary. 


WEYMOUTH AND BraintTrReBR ACADEMY.’ — Feeling 
the need of a higher seminary of learning than any that 
had been sustained hitherto in the town, in the early 
part of the present century a project was undertaken 
by some of the prominent citizens of Weymouth Land- 
ing for the establishment of an academy of high grade, 
and an act of incorporation-was obtained, dated 28th of 
February, 1828, in which Cotton Tufts, J oseph Loud, 
Noah Fifield, and others were named as corporators. 
A suitable building was erected the same year, upon 
land donated for the purpose by Capt. Warren Weston, 
on the side of the hill, a short distance above his dwell- 
ing, on the Weymouth and Braintree turnpike, and the 
institution was begun. The first principal was Thomas 
or Samuel Gregg, and soon after a Mr. Goodell was 
furnished him as an assistant. Mr. Gregg remained 
but a short time, and was succeeded by Samuel Thomas 
Worcester, afterwards judge, with Miss Mary F. R. 
Wales, as assistant: this was about the spring of 
1830. These were soon married to each other, and left 
the school together. Calvin E. Park, a brother of Pro- 


1 The records of the academy have been lost, and the facts respecting 
it are gathered from various sources worthy of credit. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 133 


fessor Park, of Andover, followed Mr. Worcester, and 
Miss Lucy M. K. Brastow took the place of Miss 
Wales. Mr. Eldredge succeeded Mr. Park, and was 
probably the last that taught for the corporation. 
There were several who attempted private schools in 
the building, but, like the academy, they were financial 
failures, and in 1833 the building was sold and con- 
verted into a double tenement dwelling-house, having 
previously been used for a short time by the public 
schools. The building was burned in 1844. 


Newsparers.'— As far as information can be ob- 
tained, the first attempt at newspaper publishing in the 
town was made about fifty years ago, by Josiah White, 
of North Weymouth, an amateur printer, with very 
limited facilities. Only a few numbers were published, 
and those at irregular intervals. It soon ceased to ap- 
pear, for want of sufficient encouragement. For many 
years succeeding this, Weymouth was without a local 
press, although occasional attempts were made by pub- 
lishers of neighboring towns to introduce their own 
papers here with a slight change in the form and with a 
local heading. In 1867, the Weymouth Gazette, pub- 
lished by C. G. Easterbrook, made its first appearance, 
and it has since that time been issued regularly every 
week. It has made itself a local necessity, and has 
become a permanent institution. During the existence 
of the Gazette, several attempts have been made to 
introduce rival sheets, the first of these being the Wey- 
mouth Courier, which began its publication in 1876, in 
East Weymouth, under the charge of Jones & Co. It 
survived about one year. The Weymouth Advance was 
the next candidate for the position; started in 1877, 


1 Furnished by Charles G. Easterbrook, Esq., editor of the Weymouth 
Gazette. 


134 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


at Hast Weymouth, by C. F. David, and had an exist- 
ence of about two years. Spooner & Webster under- 
took to resuscitate the latter enterprise, but, after a few 
weeks, the attempt was abandoned, as was also the 
effort to revive the Weymouth Courier by Mr. Spooner, 


THe Weymoutu Historica Socrery.'— This so- 
ciety was organized in the spring of 1879, by several 
gentlemen, for purposes indicated by its name. The 
growing interest in historical matters and the absence 
of any history of this ancient and important town en- 
couraged the effort, and its object has been to collect 
and preserve historical material, mainly that connected 
with this town. Hlias Richards, Esq., has been its pres- 
ident since its foundation, and it has succeeded in col- 
lecting a valuable amount of historical matter. It has 
also a small but constantly increasing library of histori- 
cal works. Its meetings are of much interest and are 
held monthly in the Tufts Library rooms, where also 
are located its library and other collections. 


SoctaL Lipraries were formed in several of the vil- 
lages in the town in the early part of the present cen- 
tury. The shares were owned by the members, and the 
expenses paid by a small annual fee. ‘These proved of 
great benefit, but the foundations upon which they 
rested were not calculated for permanence, and in a few 
years they gradually disappeared. ‘The first permanent 
organization of the kind was the Mutual Library Asso- 
ciation of South Weymouth, formed Noy. 13, 1863, 
with eighty members, holding about one hundred and 
thirty-five shares, and a library of four hundred vol- 
umes, which has now increased to fifteen hundred. 
Previous to Dec. 24, 1881, the library was supported 


‘Compiled from the records of the society. 


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by annual fees, fines, and occasional entertainments. 
Since that date it has been free to the public, depending 
upon private contributions and extra entertainments for 
its support. It is well patronized and promises perma- 
nence.’ 


Tue Turts Lisrary.? — This is a free, public 
library, located at Weymouth Landing, and was estab- 
lished from a fund left by will, for this purpose, by the 
late Quincy Tufts, and his sister, Miss Susan Tufts, 
grandchildren of Dr. Cotton Tufts, one of Weymouth’s 
most valuable citizens during the whole of the latter 
half of the eighteenth century. The estimated value 
of the fund is about twenty thousand dollars, and 
came into possession of the trustees of the Tufts 
Library in 1879, who immediately proceeded to apply 
it to its intended purposes. A part of the fund con- 
sisted of two buildings at the Landing, the lower story 
of one being fitted up for the library, and the income 
derived from the remainder of the fund devoted to fur- 
nishing and sustaining it. Books were purchased and 
arranged, a librarian engaged, and the library opened 
to the public the Ist of January of the year 1880, with 
about two thousand three hundred volumes. Since 
then, the library has been rapidly increased from the 
income of its funds, and from liberal appropriations by 
the town, until its volumes have reached the number of 
about seven thousand five hundred (Jan. 1, 1884), and 
is one of the most valuable and best selected for its size 
of any in the land. It is highly appreciated and exten- 
sively used by almost the whole body of inhabitants of 
sufficient age; and the call has been so large from the 
other villages of the town, that the trustees have made 
arrangements by which these can be supplied with the 


1 Facts supplied by Henry A. Thomas, Esq. 
2 From official records. 


136 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


books without expense to the takers, thus making it 
available to all the people, although it is located in one 
of the villages. The income of a part of the fund was 
set apart hy the devisor, for free lectures upon educa- 
tional matters; and three courses of these have already 
been provided. The library is in the control of a board 
of trustees, consisting of the selectmen of the town, ex 
officio, and others chosen by the town according to the 
terms of the legacy. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 137 


CHAPTER VIII. 


Military Organizations: Early Companies, Company for the Castle, Wey- 
mouth Light Horse, Weymouth Artillery, Weymouth Light Infantry, 
Franklin Guards — Grand Army of the Republic: Lincoln Post, No. 
40, Reynolds Post, No. 58— Societies and Associations: Masonic: 
Orphans Hope Lodge, Delta Lodge, South Shore Commandery, 
Pentalpa Royal Arch Chapter — Odd Fellows: Crescent Lodge, Wil- 
dey Lodge, Wompatuck Encampment — Knights of Pythias: Delphi 
Lodge — Knights of Honor: Pilgrim Lodge— Weymouth Agricul- 
tural and Industrial Society — Other Organizations. 


MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS.’ — Very early, in fact 
from the beginning of the settlement, the necessities of 
the times called the attention of the people to military 
matters. They were obliged to furnish themselves with 
arms, and to have some kind of organized associations, 
to resist their savage enemies, who were ever on the 
alert to surprise them. Consequently, among the earli- 
est movements recorded are the formation of military 
companies and the employment of men “to trayne” 
them. The records of Weymouth show its interest and 
participation in these organizations in the first years of 
its existence. 

As the various wars began and ended, this feeling 
became active or dormant, and new movements were 
made from time to time, as fresh occasions called for 
them. Of the earlier organizations nothing very definite 
is known. In the first century of the colony, Weymouth 
had its troop of horse, besides its regular enrolment of 
militia, covering all able-bodied men of military age, 


1 The facts for these sketches are drawn from the town records, State 
archives, and other sources. 


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formed into companies and officered. This system, if 
the rude organizations can be dignified by such a term, 
continued for two hundred years. 

Near the close of the first half of the eighteenth 
century an independent company was formed in Wey- 
mouth for service at Castle William, in Boston Harbor, 
under command of Major Adam Cushing. Its officers 
were Ebenezer White, captain; Ebenezer Porter, lieu- 
tenant; and John Porter, ensign; with a roster number- 
ing sixty-six persons, most of whom were young men, 
from eighteen to twenty-five years of age. A full list of 
its members is in existence at the present time. 

During the latter part of the century the troop of 
horse was revived, and in 1798 the Weymouth Light- 
Horse Troop was regularly organized, with John White 
as its first captain, whose commission dates Aug. 13 
of that year. This company held its existence about 
a dozen years, and included on its rolls a large portion 
of the active, prominent citizens. 

The next organization was the Weymouth Artillery 
Company, formed in 1801, with Nathaniel Shaw as 
its first captain, his commission dating Oct. 5 of the 
same. year. This company enjoyed an active life of 
more than forty years, and was composed of the “first 
young men” of the town. It disbanded about 1843. 

The Weymouth Light Infantry was a local organi- 
zation, formed at Weymouth Landing in 1818, Levi 
Bates being its first captain, the date of whose commis- 
sion is recorded as Feb. 9, 1818. It was composed of 
the active men of the village, and continued its existence 
for about fifteen years. 

The Franklin Guards, of South Weymouth, was a 
local organization, as indicated by its name. Its first 
captain was Samuel P. Bayley, commissioned Feb. 26, 
1822. The company was continued for ten or fifteen 
years. 


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GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, DEPARTMENT OF 
MassaAcuusetts.' — Lincoln Post, No. 40, named for 
our lamented President, was organized Jan. 2, 1868, at 
North Weymouth, having for its first Commander, Gen. 
b. F. Pratt, who had previously been a comrade of Post 
15, in Boston. In August, 1873, it surrendered its 
charter and united with Post 58. 

Reynolds Post, No. 58, was formed July 14, 1868, 
and numbered, Dec. 1, 1883, three hundred and nine- 
teen members. It was named in honor of Gen. John F. 
Reynolds, of the First Army Corps, under whom many 
of its comrades served. Its first Commander was Gen. 
James L. Bates; and its present, Col. B. S. Lovell. Its 
charity fund amounts to $15,000; and up to the begin- 
ning of 1883, the Post had expended, in relief and 
benefits to sick comrades and to widows and orphans of 
deceased soldiers, the sum of $6,768.83. During its 
later years the disbursements for these purposes have 
been about $1,000 annually. The funeral expenses of a 
comrade, to the amount of fifty dollars, are borne by the 
Post, in cases where the family or connections of the 
deceased would find it a burden to provide them. All 
of the members are uniformed. ‘The Post is a most 
useful organization, and was never more prosperous 
than at present. Its regular meetings are held on the 
first and third Tuesdays of each month. 


Societies AND AssocrATiIons.*°— Masonic. — Among 
the most important associations in the town are the 
Masonic organizations, of which there are three. 

The Orphans Hope Lodge of Ancient, Free, and 
Accepted Masons was instituted June 8, 1825; the 


1 Supplied by Capt. Charles W. Hastings and others. 
2The materials for these sketches are mostly furnished by officers of 
the various societies named, and are gathered from their records. 


140 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


charter was granted to John Edson and others. In 
1830, during the anti-Masonic excitement, the charter 
was returned to the Grand Lodge, and Sept. 10, 1856, 
was reissued on petition of Lovell Bicknell and others. 
John Edson was the first Master, and Timothy Gordon 
the first Secretary. From the return of the charter the 
Lodge has always been in a prosperous condition, and 
never more successful than at the present time. Its 
meetings were held first at Weymouth Landing, then 
at North Weymouth, and since at Hast Weymouth, 
always in hired apartments; but a new hall is now in 
process of erection by the Lodge in the latter village, — 
and will probably be ready for occupancy in the fall of 
1884. The Lodge numbers one hundred and sixty-six 
members. 

The Delta Lodge, at Weymouth Landing, was char- 
tered July 2, 1869, by the Grand Lodge; the first meet- 
ing having been held on May 12 of the previous 
year. Edward Avery was the first Worshipful Mas- 
ter; N. F. T. Hunt, Senior Warden; A. S. White, 
Treasurer; C. G. Thompson, Secretary. ‘The present 
officers are Alden Bowditch, Worshipful Master; EH. H. 
Richards, Senior Warden; John M. Walsh, Treasurer; 
Wm. 8. Wallace, Secretary. 

The South Shore Commandery of Knights Templars 
was duly constituted by charter Oct. 13, 1871, Z. L. Bick- 
nell, Commander; George Wyman Fay, Generalissimo; 
and H. Waters Burr, Captain-General. Its place of 
meeting is at Hast Weymouth, and its present member- 
ship (September, 1883) is one hundred and fifty-three. 
Its present officers are E. W. H. Bass, Commander; 
William Fearing, Generalissimo; Charles N. Marsh, 
Recorder; Andrew J. Garey, Captain-General; and 
Edmund G. Bates, Treasurer. 

Pentalpa Royal Arch Chapter held its first ,meeting 
June 14, 1870. Stephen S. Bradford, High Priest; 


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William Humphrey, King; A. A. Holbrook, Scribe; 
Samuel A. Bates, Secretary. Its present officers are 
Francis K. Slack, High Priest; Joel F. Sheppard, 
King; John M. Walsh, Scribe; William Cushing, 
Secretary; and its membership is one hundred and 
twenty-four. 

The Independent Order of Odd Fellows has two 
Lodges in the town. 

The Crescent Lodge, No. 32, at East Weymouth, 
was instituted Aug. 22, 1845. It has received into its 
membership three hundred and forty-six, of whom 
forty-five have died. 

The Wildey Lodge, of South Weymouth, was insti- 
tuted March 9, 1875, with eighteen charter members, 
and has now a membership of one hundred and eigh- 
teen. Its growth has been steady and permanent, and 
it stands second to none in sustaining the objects of its 
organization. It has a fine building erected by its 
members, which, with its furnishing, has cost fifteen 
thousand dollars. In this building are a hall for the 
use of the Lodge, a public hall and two stores. 

The, Wompatuck Encampment, No. 18, was origi- 
nally organized in Hingham, but surrendered its charter 
Feb. 2, 1851. It was reinstated at Hast Weymouth, 
Oct. 27, 1875, at the petition of Stephen Cain and thir- 
teen others, with George W. Pratt, C. P.; A. H. Leon- 
ard, Scribe; K. Chamberlain, Treasurer. 

Knights of Pythias.—The Delphi Lodge, No. 15, 
was organized Dec. 17, 1869, with thirteen charter 
members, at Weymouth Landing; was burned out 
Sept. 15, 1870, sustaining a loss of six hundred dollars. 
The Lodge now occupies a fine new hall, well furnished, 
and is growing rapidly, with a present membership of 
one hundred and twelve. 

Knights of Honor.— The Pilgrim Lodge, No. 485, 
at East Weymouth, was organized Feb. 27, 1877, with 


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thirteen charter members; first named “Cooper,” in 
compliment of its first Dictator, but two years after this, 
for obvious reasons, the name was changed to “ Pilgrim.” 
Its growth has been slow but steady, and now numbers 
sixty members. This is a benevolent association, and 
pays two thousand dollars to the heirs of each member 
upon his death. Frank W. Lewis is the present Dic- 
tator. 

The Weymouth Agricultural and Industrial Society 
was formed Oct. 31, 1864, for purposes indicated by 
its name, to promote the interests of agriculture and 
industry. Its first president was James L. Bates; and 
its present, Alvah Raymond. It owns about thirty-three 
acres of land in the southeasterly part of the town, 
upon which there is a half-mile track, with horse sta- 
bles, etc. Its stock is held at ten dollars per share, of 
which there are about nine hundred held by four hun- 
dred and seventy members. The society holds an 
annual fair upon its grounds, and is in a prosperous 
condition. 

There are also several other organizations of similar 
character, among them the Hibernians of Hast Wey- 
mouth, a Council of the Royal Arcanum, at Weymouth 
Landing, and many temperance associations, ‘Temple 
of Honor, Reform Club, Good Templars, Woman’s 
Temperance Union, and others, of which fuller mention 
cannot be made for want of space. 


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CHAPTER IX. 


Business Enterprises! — Mills: The Waltham-Richards-Bates Mill, Tide 
Mill, Tirrell’s Mill, Reed’s Mill, Loud’s Mill, Vinson’s Mill, Dyer’s 
Mill — Turnpikes: Weymouth and Braintree, New Bedford, Hingham 
and Quincy Bridge — Railroads: Old Colony, South Shore — Ex- 
presses — Telegraph — Telephone — Financial Corporations — Banks: 
Union National, National of South Weymouth — Savings Banks: 
Weymouth, South Weymouth, East Weymouth — Weymouth and 
Braintree Fire Insurance Company — Manufactures: Boots and 
Shoes — Weymouth Iron Company — Fish Company — Weymouth 
Commercial Company — Ice Companies — Bradley Fertilizer Com- 
pany —Ship Building — Bay State Hammock Company— Howe & 
French — Fire-W orks — Mitten Factory — Miscellaneous. 


Mius.?— Weymouth has always, from its settlement 
by the English, been noted for its excellent mill priv- 
ileges. Mill River, from its departure from Great Pond 
to its mouth at tide-water, abounds with valuable sites 
which have been improved during almost if not quite its 
entire history. The mill of William Waltham is men- 
tioned in his will in 1640. In the following January, 1641, 
a difficulty arose between Henry Waltham, to whom the 


1 The portion of this sketch devoted to business matters is necessarily 
very brief, the space allowing only a bare outline of important interests. 
Many are omitted entirely, among which are all of that class engaged in 
supplying the material wants of the inhabitants, very large in the aggre- 
gate, employing much capital and many individuals. Several of the 
smaller manufactures are also unmentioned for want of room. ‘The 
compiler believes, however, that he has treated the business interests of 
the town as fully and fairly as can be reasonably demanded in a work of 
this magnitude. 

?The sketch of the mill property has been gathered from the town, 
county and private records, and from Quincy L. Reed, Esq., to whom the 
compiler is especially indebted for much valuable information, much of 
which has been omitted for want of space. 


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property had passed, and Wealthean Richards, wife of 
Thomas Richards, whose husband was absent from the 
country and had left her in charge of his interest. This 
was submitted to a reference consisting of Rey. Mr. 
Newman, James Parker, Esq., and Edward Bates. In 
1642, Henry Waltham sold one half of his grist mill 
(the same property) to Joseph Arthur, of Weymouth, 
England, for one hundred and forty pounds, with other 
property. In 1651, after the death of Mr. Richards, 
who seems to have obtained possession of the whole 
property, the mill was set off to his widow. The town 
records of that date say it “was on the road to Hingham 
Plain.” This locates it at Back River, below Whitman’s 
Pond. The mill (or mills) seems to have passed into 
the hands of Elder Bates, and was used as a grist, saw, 
and fulling mill, probably in two different buildings and 
a short distance apart. After several changes the priv- 
ileges passed into the possession of the Weymouth Iron 
Company in 1837, which has since improved them. 

The Tide Mill.— As early as 1669 the “tyde mill” 
is mentioned. In 1682 it is called “ Nash’s grist mill.” 
In 1696, James Nash, the second of the name, left it to 
his grandson, James Drake, from whom it passed into 
possession of the Burrells, and soon after, the Webbs, 
with whom it remained for a hundred or more years. It 
was used for mill purposes until the present generation. 
It is now dismantled, and the privilege is not used. Its 
location was on Mill Cove, on the easterly side of Fore 
River, and not far from the original Weston settlement. 

Tirrel’s Mill.—'This mill is situated very near the 
centre of the town, and dates from 1693, when the town 
granted a permit to Gideon Tirrell to set up a fulling 
mill at “blade mill.” Whether the latter name refers to 
the name of the owner or to the kind of a mill previously 
there is not known’ It remained in the family of its 
original builder until quite recently, when it was bought 


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by J. Loud & Co., and by them sold to Howe & French, 
the present owners. 

Reed’s Mill. — Following the course of the stream for 
about two miles towards its source, where it crosses the 
old Plymouth road, Reed’s Mill is found, built near the 
close of the last century by Jeremiah Shaw. It came 
into the hands of Ezra Reed about 1811, and was used 
as a grist mill until 1855, when the present buildmg was 
erected, which was occupied by E. & C. Sherman as a 
box factory for a dozen years. The upper mill was 
built in 1866, and was used as a saw mill until 1877, 
when it was leased to Cyrus Sherman and used for the 
manufacture of boot and shoe lasts, at which business 
he employs about twelve hands. 

Loud’s Mill.—'This was probably the oldest mill 
above Tirrell’s. It was built near the beginning of the 
last century, and was known as Sayle’s Mill. That 
family is now extinct in the town. At that period quite 
a village clustered about this mill, of which only the 
ruined cellars remain. The present mill was erected in 
1836 as a grist mill by Mr. Loud, where, in 1850, he 
commenced making boxes. He still carries on the busi- 
ness there, employing about ten persons. This mill isa 
short distance above the Reed Mill. 

Vinson’s Mill.— This mill, formerly known as 
Colson’s, is located not far from Great Pond, and was 
erected. about 1765. It passed into the hands of Mr. 
‘Vinson, and was used as a grist mill until about 1837, 
and afterwards for a time as a bucket and shingle mill. 
The property is now owned by Mr. Elon Sherman, and 
used as a box factory, with about fifteen workmen. A 
few years since the old mill was burned and a new one 
erected. Mr. Sherman has also, within a year or two, 
commenced the manufacture of paper cartons for shoes. 

Dyers Mill. — This mill is located on Marsh River, 
on Pleasant Street, and was probably built by William 


146 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


Reed before 1700. In 1716 it is named in the will of 
John Porter as the “saw mill.” It subsequently passed 
into the hands of the Dyers, and was used by them as a 
grist mill. It has not been used for mill purposes for 
about fifty or sixty years. 


TuRNPIKES, Rattroaps, Etc.1— The primitive 
means of communication with Boston and other towns 
was by private conveyance, horses, ox-wagons, and 
afterwards carriages,— with the sailing packets,. the 
latter being the main dependence for this purpose. 
From the earliest times the packet was the favorite, 
being quicker, cheaper and more convenient, and was 
in constant use for more than two hundred years, one 
or two of them always finding ready employment in 
passengers and freight. As the roads improved, and 
the needs of the people became greater, the stage-coach 
made its appearance and ran regularly between this town 
and Boston, until the necessity of still better roads for 
the accommodation of the increasing travel became ap- 
parent. ‘Turnpikes were projected in various places, and 
several were proposed that should pass through Wey- 
mouth. ‘The conservative element prevailed so strongly 
that the town strenuously opposed every attempt to 
locate any through it, especially those crossing the 
rivers. Notwithstanding all the endeavors of the town, 
charters were granted for three. 

The Weymouth and Braintree Turnpike, crossing 
from Weymouth Landing southeasterly to Hingham, on 
the line from Boston to Plymouth, was chartered March 
4, 1803, and opened for travel in 1805. 'This was con- 
tinued for nearly fifty years, when, owing to the changed 
condition of things with new modes of conveyance, it 


1The turnpike and railroad statistics and history are compiled from the 
town, State and corporation files. 


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was thrown upon the town, July 15, 1852, and became 
a public road, now known as Washington Street. 

A second, the New Bedford Turnpike, obtained a 
charter, 29th of February, 1804, and was laid out from 
the Weymouth and Braintree turnpike, beginning about 
a mile from the Landing, running nearly south to the 
Abington line; on the route from Boston to New 
Bedford. The northerly part of the road was never a 
paying concern, and before many years it lapsed into 
private hands and is now Main Street. 

The Hingham and Quincy Bridge and Turnpike 
Corporation was chartered 5th March, 1808, and opened 
for travel, with its two bridges over Fore and Back 
Rivers, connecting Quincy and Hingham, in 1812. 
These bridges, with their tolls from travellers and tolls 
to vessels passing through the draws, were a continual 
source of vexation and contention, which did not cease 
until the whole property was thrown upon the. towns as 
a public highway, 25th September, 1862. 

Railroads. — succeeding these, and the main cause 
of their failure, came the railroads; and the same spirit 
that had opposed the turnpike came forward in great 
strength against the railroad, and the town opposed 
every attempt to locate one across its territory, but the 
genius of progress prevailed, and in March, 1844, 

The Old Colony Railroad received its charter, and 
located its track across the southwest corner of the town 
from Braintree to Abington, passing a little south of 
the village of South Weymouth. The road was speed- 
ily built, and was opened for travel Noy. 10, 1845. 

The South Shore Railroad soon followed the Old 
Colony, its charter dating March 26, 1846, and was 
opened to the public Jan. 1, 1849. This road crosses 
the town near the villages of Weymouth Landing, 
North Weymouth and East Weymouth, the princi- 
pal centres of population and business. It was run at 


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first connecting with the Old Colony at Braintree, and 
was afterwards hired by the latter. In May, 1877, it 
was bought by that corporation, and is now one of its 
branches. 


Tue Express Business has grown in a half-century 
—at the beginning of which private teams were the 
only means of transportation aside from the sailing 
packets — until it numbers a dozen companies, employ- 
ing scores of men and twice as many horses, requiring 
not far from $60,000 of capital. 

The telegraph and the telephone have also become 
indispensable to the wants of the inhabitants, several 
lines of the former running through the town, and the 
latter being freely used by many business houses. It 
is found very convenient also for families. 


FINANCIAL CorPorAtTions.! — The increase of mer- 
cantile business and the springing up of manufactures 
consequent upon the revival of trade, at the beginning 
of the nineteenth century, demanded greater financial 
facilities than were previously enjoyed. In the circles 
immediately concerned there was not capital enough to 
do the necessary business, and exchanges were diffi- 
cult. As the grand panacea for all these evils, banks 
were proposed and established, and Weymouth did not 
refuse to encourage such enterprises. Consequently, 

The Union Bank of Weymouth and Braintree was 
proposed, $100,000 capital contributed, an act of incor- 
poration obtained, dated March 17, 1832, and the com- 
pany organized on the 11th of April, with choice of 
Josiah Vinton, Jr., as president, and commenced busi- 
ness as soon as the necessary details could be arranged. 


1 These sketches come principally from the records of the institutions 
mentioned. 


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In 1853 an increase of $50,000 was made to its capital. 
On Sept. 6, 1864, the bank reorganized under the 
United States National Banking Act as the Union 
National Bank of Weymouth, and Jan. 12, 1865, the 
capital was increased to $300,000; and again, April 12, 
1869, another $100,000 was added, making its present 
capital $400,000. It has a building of its own, and has 
always been located at Weymouth Landing. 

The First National Bank of South Weymouth was 
organized Oct. 31, 1864, in consequence of the increase 
of business in that part of the town, and to employ a 
part of the capital rapidly accumulating there. Hon. 
B. F. White was its first president, and its capital was 
$150,000. In 1866 it purchased the building it now 
occupies. 

The Weymouth and Braintree Institution for Sav- 
ings was incorporated Feb. 16, 1833. The original 
incorporators named were Asa Webb, Whitcomb Porter, 
and Warren Weston. It began business the following 
February, 1834, Dr. Noah Fifield being the first presi- 
dent. By act of Legislature, March 19, 1872, its name 
was changed to Weymouth Savings Bank. Its assets, 
Jan. 1, 1883, were $565,432.06. 

The South Weymouth Savings Bank was incorpo- 
rated March 6, 1868, in the name of Benjamin F. 
White and others, and commenced business the follow- 
ing month. Its assets amounted to $395,176.20 at the 
last report. 

The Hast Weymouth Savings Bank was incorporated 
in 1872, and began business. OnJan.1, 1883, its assets 
were reported at $247,357.56. 

The Weymouth and Braintree Mutual Fire Insur- 
ance Company was incorporated in 1833. Asa Webb 
was chosen president, F. A. Kingsbury, secretary, and 
Ezra Leach, treasurer. After fifty years of active busi- 
ness, it is now closing its affairs. 


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Manvuracturses.'— For nearly two hundred years 
Weymouth was eminently an agricultural community. 
It had fine large farms, well cultivated and productive. 
A hundred years ago a much larger proportion of its 
area was under cultivation than at present, and many of 
the best farms of that date or earlier are how grown up 
to wood or bushes. Its dairies were celebrated through- 
out the State. With the introduction of manufactures 
a new condition of things was called into existence, and 
the young men, instead of following the occupation of 
their fathers, began to learn trades, and the farms being 
neglected, the town gradually changed from agriculture 
to manufactures, and is now almost wholly given up to 
the latter. 

Boots and Shoes. — This interest largely predomi- 
nates, and employs more men and capital than any 
other branch of industry. As late as the beginning of 
the present century there were probably not more than 
three or four persons who manufactured this» class of 
goods for other than the home market, and those only 
gave employment to a few apprentices, besides what 
they could do themselves. These goods were carried 
to Boston market either upon the backs of the manu- 
facturers, who made the journey on foot, or else in sad- 
dle-bags upon horses. The business gradually increased, 
until it became necessary to use wagons to carry in the 
goods and bring out materials. The beginnings of 
this trade were at Weymouth Landing, spreading thence 
to the north and south villages, reaching latest of all 


1 The materials upon which the following record is founded have been 
gathered from a large variety of public and private sources, and, where 
possible, have been carefully verified, and are believed to contain the 
more important facts connected with the business enterprises of the town. 
This has been a task of considerable difficulty, as many of the items are 
not a matter of record, but must be gathered from oral statement. It is 
thought, however, to contain no important error. 


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the east, which now surpasses all of the others in the 
magnitude of its business in this line. It was a whole 
generation before it became necessary to: employ a 
“baggage wagon,” the clumsy pioneer of the present 
express, and the buildings used in carrying on the man- 
ufacture would hardly suffice for offices at the present 
day, the goods being made wholly at the homes of the 
workmen, nearly all of whom had little shops in or near 
their dwellings, the work being prepared and packed 
only at the factory. As late as 1840, it was a large 
factory that produced $500 worth of goods in the 
week. About that period South Weymouth received 
an impetus from its Southern trade (some of its manu- 
facturers having gone to New Orleans and established 
salesrooms in that city), which placed it far ahead of its 
rivals at the Landing and North Weymouth. The 
increase in the volume of the business was, however, 
very large in all parts of the town, especially after the 
opening of California, in 1849; and the large demand 
from that State for this class of manufactures the town 
was forward to meet. From these small beginnings the 
trade has increased, until there are now forty establish- 
ments, employing upwards of 2,500 persons, and using 
more than a million dollars of capital. The annual 
production of the various classes of goods is about four 
millions of dollars in value. Six or eight of these fac- 
tories furnish work to one hundred to five hundred peo- 
ple each. 

Iron.—In the spring of 1771 iron ore, in sufficient 
quantities to pay well for gathering, began to be found 
in the ponds of the town, and a contract was made with 
Thomas Hobart, of Abington, by a public sale, for the 
ore found in Great Pond at forty shillings per ton, with 
an agreement to defend him against any claims for dam- 
ages that might be advanced by other parties should any 
contest the town’s right to the ore; a committee was 


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also chosen by the town to prosecute any others who 
should be found taking ore from this pond. 

This contract remained in force until the 20th of 
May, 1773, when a lease was given to Mr. Hobart for 
thirty years, at sixty pounds per year, for the privilege 
of taking ore from Great, Whitman’s, and Whortle- 
berry Ponds. Ore has been found at various times and 
places besides, and attempts made to utilize it, but the 
quantities were so small and the expense of getting it 
so great that competition with more favored deposits 
could not be maintained, and the enterprises were aban- 
doned. After the expiration of Mr. Hobart’s lease the 
town appears to have made no other. 

The Weymouth Iron Company is one of the lar- 
gest manufacturing establishments in the town. It 
was incorporated March 4, 1837, with a capital of 
$150,000, which has since been increased to $300,000. 
It owns the splendid water privilege at Back River, at 
the foot of Whitman’s Pond. For many years it was 
exceedingly prosperous, making enormous dividends. 
From various causes its business gradually declined, 
and it ceased for a time to pay a profit; but quite 
recently its trade has begun to revive, and its prospects 
are again more encouraging. At present it manufac- 
tures only nails, and these have a very wide reputation. 
It employs two hundred and seventy-five men, when 
running full. 

Fish Company.— In the early part of the eighteenth 
century a company was formed by a number of the 
prominent men of the town for the purpose of carry- 
ing on “a fishing trade to Cape Sables,” and the 
town granted to it the use of “so much of Hunt’s Hill, 
with the lowland and beach adjoining, at the mouth of 
Fore River, as may be necessary for the purpose.” As 
far as the record shows, this was the first joint-stock 
company formed in the town. Of its history but little 
is known. 


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After this, by nearly a century, came the “ Wey- 
mouth Commercial Company,” in 1805, formed for the 
purpose of carrying on a foreign and domestic trade. 
This company employed a capital of not far from 
twenty thousand dollars, the shares of the several stock- 
holders varying from three hundred to three thousand 
dollars each; Eliphalet Loud, Esq., being the treasurer. 
It owned several vessels, among which were the ship 
“Commerce,” Capt. Joseph Tirrell, the brig * Adamant,” 
and the schooner “ Venus.” This company does not 
appear to have had a prolonged existence. 

Ice Companies. —'The ice business is carried on to 
considerable extent, there being several companies in 
various parts of the town engaged in supplying the 
local demand, while the “South Boston Ice Com- 
pany ” cuts large quantities for export. The ice-houses 
of the latter are located at Great Pond, and have a 
holding capacity of forty thousand tons, from which they 
ship to Boston about twenty-five thousand tons annually. 
The season for cutting lasts from four to six weeks, dur- 
ing which the company employs from seventy-five to 
one hundred and fifty men, and from twenty to thirty 
horses, the quality of the ice being the finest in the 
market. The company commenced business here in 
1874. 

Lumber, Grain, and Coal. — The navigable waters 
bordering the northern part of the town have ever been 
improved by the inhabitants as sources of convenience 
and profit in the transportation of passengers and 
freight. From the early settlement sailing vessels ran 
with more or less regularity between this town and 
Boston, as well as other places about the bay, but it was 
not until the present century that there began to be 
anything like commercial adventure. Quite early in the 
nineteenth century the lumber trade was opened with 
the Maine ports, and several freights came annually 


154 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


into Fore River. After 1820 the trade increased 
rapidly, and Weymouth Landing became the market 
for the lumber traffic of the towns lying for many miles 
to the southward. The business was carried on with 
enterprise and success for many years, and was a 
source of profit to the village, until the opening of the 
railroads diverted much of this trade to other places. 
There is still, however, a large business done in this line 
at the Landing. Following the opening of the lumber 
traffic, the importation of grain from New York and 
other places was begun, and soon after coal became a 
staple commodity. All of these branches of business 
have been continued until the present time, and are now 
prosecuted largely and successfully by several concerns, 
who employ large numbers of men and many vessels; 
and itis no uncommon sight to witness lying at the 
wharves half a dozen vessels laden with coal and lum- 
ber, some of them carrying a freight of four or five hun- 
dred tons each. 

Among the various industrial interests not before 
named are the “ Bradley Fertilizer Company,” formed 
in 1872 for the purpose of manufacturing various 
kinds of fertilizers, successors of William L. Bradley, 
who had previously been engaged in the same business 
for eleven years. The company owns a large tract of 
land upon Hastern Neck, the northernmost point on 
the mainland of Weymouth, upon which they have 
erected about thirty buildings, with wharves and landings, 
where they employ about one hundred and seventy-five 
men, and are manufacturing about sixty thousand tons 
of their productions in the year. ‘They also own and 
use the tow-boat “Peter B. Bradley,” the largest and 
strongest in Boston Harbor, with five “lighters,” two 
of three hundred tons each, one of two hundred tons, 
and two of one hundred tons each; also a brig of three 
hundred and fifty tons. 


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Ship-Building. — Although Weymouth has been dur- 
ing most of its history much interested in mercantile 
marine affairs, owning vessels and furnishing men, yet 
it has never been largely engaged in the construction of 
these vessels. About half a century ago a ship-yard 
was established at Weymouth Landing by Atherton W. 
Tilden, which he carried on for a few years, and built a 
number of vessels of various sizes, some of several 
hundred tons burden. From that time until 1876 but 
little if anything was done at the business. In the lat- 
ter year N. Porter Keen commenced the construction 
of vessels in Old Spain, near Hunt’s Hill, and since that 
time he has built eleven vessels, sail and steam, averaging 
a cost of about forty thousand dollars each. There is 
on the stocks at present a large vessel intended for a 
four-masted schooner (since launched). Mr. Keen 
employs about thirty men. 

The Bay State Hammock Company, Augustus Beals, 
proprietor, has a factory in Old Spain. Commenced 
business in 1876, making about two hundred hammocks 
per year, and now produces twenty-five thousand annu- 
ally, employing about fifty workmen. 

Howe & French purchased, about ten years since, 
the old Tirrell Mill, where they manufacture fish glue, 
working about five months in the year, and employing 
about seventy individuals. 

Fire- Works. — About the year 1850, Edmund §, Hunt, 
of this town, began his first experiments in the manu- 
facture of fire-works, but it was not until 1856 that 
the business was fairly established. Since that time 
it has been carried on with success, and has a well- 
earned reputation for the quality and variety of its pro- 
ductions. The factory is at Weymouth Landing, and 
in the busy season employs about thirty operatives. 

Tanning and Currying.— In former days these 
branches of business were carried on in many small 


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establishments scattered in various parts of the town; 
but these have nearly all disappeared, and are repre- 
sented by three concerns, who employ in all from twenty 
to thirty men. One of these factories, that of W. Hum- 
phrey & Co., has been in existence, under various 
owners, for considerably more than a hundred years. 

There are also three firms occupied in extracting the 
oil from the calf-skin skirtings collected at the boot and 
shoe factories, and in bleaching them. This business 
employs eight men, and extracts about two tons of 
grease per week. The work is done at Hast Wey- 
mouth. 

At South Weymouth, Clarence A. Hunt has a large 
factory, in which, during the trade season, he employs 
one hundred and twenty hands, mostly girls and young 
men, in the production of various kinds of mittens and 
gloves, including all kinds of leather and yarn work, 
about one hundred dozen being a day’s work. 

There are also many small factories of different kinds 
of which space will permit only the mention, among 
them a furniture factory at North Weymouth; a factory 
at Hast Weymouth for the canning of fruits, vegetables, 
and meats; several stamping and gilding establish- 
ments; also others for making heels and counters for 
boots and shoes. 


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CHAPTER X. 


Ministers of the First Church: William Morrell — Mr. Barnard — 
Joseph Hull — Thomas Jenner— Robert Lenthal — Samuel Newman 
— Thomas Thacher—Samuel Torrey — Peter Thacher — Thomas 
Paine — William Smith — Jacob Norton — Josiah Bent, Jr. — John 
C. Phillips — Joshua Emery, Jr. — Franklin P. Chapin. 


Second Church: James Bayley — Simeon Williams. 


Rev. Wizi1amM Morrecu. — Of Rev. William Morrell 
but little more is known than is recorded in the first 
chapter. His scholarship and mental ability are fully 
shown in the elegant Latin poem upon New England, 
which he published after his return to England. This 
is republished with an English translation by the Massa- 
chusetts Historical Society, First Series, Vol. I. p. 125. 

It is unfortunate that no more is known of the suc- 
ceeding ten years of Weymouth history. The evidence 
of the presence here of Rey. Mr. Barnard can hardly 
be doubted, from the fact that Rev. Thomas Prince, 
from whom comes the statement, was a student in the 
family of Rev. Samuel Torrey, who came to Wey- 
mouth in 1640, at the age of eight years, and resided 
there until his death in 1707. He was for forty-two 
years minister there, and could hardly have failed to 
be well informed in matters concerning its early history, 
knowing personally, as he did, many of the Gorges 
Company. 

The following is the extract from “ Prince’s Annals” 
which has reference to the matter: — 

“'This year [1624] comes some addition to the few 
inhabitants of Wessagusett, from Weymouth, Eng., 
who are another sort of people than the former (MS. 


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letter), [and on whose account I conclude the town is 
since called Weymouth]. Nore.— They have the 
Rev. Mr. Barnard their first non-conformist minister, 
who dies among them. But whether he comes before 
1630, or when he dies, is yet unknown (MS. letter) ; 
nor do I anywhere find the least hint of him, but in the 
manuscript letter taken from some of the oldest people 
of Weymouth.” 

The latter clause would seem to afford ample basis for 
the statement. 


Rev. JosepH Huu (parentage unknown) was born 
in Somersetshire, England, in 1594; matriculated at St. 
Mary’s Hall, Oxford, May 12, 1612; took his first 
degree of A. B., Nov. 14, 1614; rector at Northleigh, 
Devon, April 4, 1621; resigned in 1632, and sailed 
for America, from Weymouth, Dorset, March 20, 1635; 
settled in Weymouth Mass., July 8, following; was 
made freeman on Sept. 2; received a grant of land 
there June 12, 1636, and was minister there at that time; 
the same year he was granted land in Hingham. In 1637 
he was still in Weymouth, although he is mentioned on 
the list of settlers at Salem, and also as preaching at 
Beverly. He was deputy from Hingham in 1638, and 
the following year. Preached his farewell sermon 
(probably at Weymouth) May 5, 1639. Was at Barn- 
stable the same month, where he received a grant of 
land June 4. Was made freeman in Plymouth Colony 
Dec. 3, 1659. In 1641 he accepted a call to Yarmouth, 
for which he and his wife were excommunicated, May 
1, but afterwards restored. In 1641 he is reported as 
preaching at the Isle of Shoals. In 1642 and 1643 he 
was still at Barnstable or vicinity, as seen from the 
court records, being party in several suits. On May 
10, 1643, he was recorded as minister at York, Me., 
having made his final removal from Plymouth Colony 


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that year. After some half a dozen years’ residence 
there, he is not heard of again until his return to Eng- 
land in 1659, where he became rector at St. Buryan, 
Cornwall. In 1662 he was again recorded as minister 
at Oyster River (Cocheco), N. H., having been ejected 
from his English living under the St. Bartholomew Act. 
He died at the Isle of Shoals, Noy. 19, 1665, having 
been driven from Oyster River by the Quakers in 1662, 
says Bishop. He was a “man of worth and learning, 
but given to change,” and was involved in many diffi- 
culties, perhaps from the force of circumstances. He 
was personally quite popular, his repeated election to 
important offices being proof; but he was not a favorite 
with the colonial authorities and the ministers; hence, 
perhaps, the larger part of his troubles. His first wife 
(name not ascertained) was the mother of seven chil- 
dren, born in England, where she died in 1633. 


Children: 


I. Joanna. born 1620; married John Bursley. 
Il. Josrrn, born 1622; history unknown. 
III. Trisrram, born 1624 ; ship master and owner, also merchant 
of Barnstable. 
IV. TEMPERANCE, born 1626. 
V. EvizasetH, born 1628; married Capt. John Heard, of 
Dover. 
VI. GrizziLu or GRISELDA, born 1630. 
VII. Dororuy, born 1632, 


Mr. Hull married (2) Agnes (family unknown), 
born 1610, who survived her husband, and was the 
mother of three children, born in America. 


Children: 


VIII. Bensamin (alias Reuben), baptized in Hingham, March 4, 
1638-9 ; merchant of Portsmouth, N. H. 
IX. Naomt, baptized at Barnstable, March 22, 1639-40. 
X. Ruvru, baptized at Barnstable, May 9, 1641. 


[From materials furnished by Robert B. Hull, Esq., New York.] 


160 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


Rev. THomas JENNER. — Not much is known of his 
history. He seems to have been in Roxbury as early as 
1634-5, and was called to preach at Weymouth in 1636, 
soon after Mr. Hull commenced his work there; prob- 
ably sent thither in the interest of the churches and 
authorities of the Bay Colony to retain the ascendency 
for them. He took the freeman’s oath in December of 
that year. On the following Jan. 9, a council met to 
“reconcile the differences between him and his people, 
and had good success ”; but that success seems to have 
been short-lived, as difficulties did not cease. He re- 
mained there several years. During that time there 
were also Mr. Hull, Mr. Robert Lenthal, and Mr. Sam- 
uel Newman, all ministers in Weymouth. In May 13, 
1640, Mr. Jenner was chosen deputy to the General 
Court, but seems to have left town soon after and went 
to Saco, Me. He must have been a man of good char- 
acter and abilities, or he could hardly have received the 
support he had from the people who sustained him, the 
ministers of Boston and vicinity, and the colonial 
authorities. 


Rev. Ropert LENTHAL came to Weymouth in 16387, 
upon the invitation of many of the inhabitants who had 
been his parishioners in England, who probably judged 
the time a favorable one to introduce their own man, in 
consequence of the troubles then existing. He does 
not seem to have been in favor with the authorities, for 
he was forbidden ordination by the governor. He was 
suspected with a leaning in favor of the views of Mrs. 
Hutchinson and her adherents, and in consequence was 
brought before a council, convened at the house of 
Capt. Israel Stoughton, in Dorchester, Feb. 10, 1639, 
the result of which left matters pretty much as it found 
them, Mr. Lenthal “being admonished.” Upon this 
council were Rey. John Wilson and Rey. John Cotton, 


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of the church in Boston; Rev. Zechariah Symmes, of 
the Charlestown church; Rev. John Weld and Rey. 
John Eliot, from Roxbury; Rev. Samuel Newman, Rev. 
Thomas Jenner, Mr. Edward Bates, afterwards ruling 
elder, and Mr. Stephen French, both from the church in 
Weymouth; and one private individual, probably Capt. 
Robert Keayne (a brother-in-law of Mr. Wilson), who 
took notes of the proceedings, which have been pre- 
served; also Capt. Stoughton, a magistrate and a prom- 
inent member of the church in Dorchester. 

Mr. Lenthal brought from England a good reputa- 
tion as a minister, and seems to have done nothing here 
worthy of censure. In 1640 he removed to Newport, 
R. I., where he taught school, and afterwards returned 
to England. 


Rev. *SamMueL NewMAn was called to the church in 
Weymouth in 1639, where he remained four or five 
years, during which time Mr. Hull, Mr. Jenner and Mr. 
Lenthal left the town, and he remained master of the 
situation, which appears not to have been altogether a 
pleasant one, since he removed about the beginning of 
1644-5 to Rehoboth, taking with him a large number of 
his people. Perhaps the selection of the name for the 
new town, “the Lord hath made room for us,” may 
furnish a hint for the reason of his removal from 
Weymouth. He was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, 
England, May 10, 1602, and was the son of Aichard 
Newman; matriculate of Trinity College, Oxford, March 
3, 1620; obtained his degree of A. B. on the 17th 
of October following, when he was said to be of St. 
Edmund’s Hall. In 1625 he had a very small benefice 
at Midhope, a part of the parish of Ecclesfield, in the 
West Riding of Yorkshire, to which his successor was 
presented ten years later. He came to New England, 
where his name is found in 1636 among the members of 


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the church in Dorchester. He came over in the ship 
“James ” from London in 1635, and died in Rehoboth, 
July 5, 1663. He was a man of excellent character 
and learning, a hard student, and an animated preacher, 
ardently beloved and long lamented by his people. He 
compiled a concordance of the Bible, the third at that 
time, and the best in the English language, and is the 
foundation of that now known as “Crudens.” ‘ While 
living he was defrauded of the profits of his work, and 
when dead he was robbed even of the name.” He 
married, Dec. 25, 1623, at Banbury, England, Sybil 
, born in that town, Noy. 21, 1604, and died in 
Rehoboth, Nov. 2, 1672. 
They had: 





I. Samver, born in England, July 6, 1625; married, Dec. 6, 
1659, bathsheba Chickering; lived in Rehoboth; was 
deacon of the church and also deputy to the General 
Court several times. He died in Rehoboth, Dee. 14, 1710. 

II. Antipas, born in England, Oct. 15, 1627; married, in 1658, 
Elizabeth, daughter of Gov. Winthrop. He was minis- 
ter at Wenham, Mass., and died in October, 1672. His 
widow afterwards married a son of Goy. Endicott. 

II. Noaun, bornin England, Jan. 10, 1631 ; married Joanna, daugh- 
ter of Rev. Henry and Margery (sister of Rev. Leonard 
Hoar, third president of Harvard College) Flint, minis- 
ter of Braintree; succeeded his father as minister at 
Rehoboth, in which office he died, April 16, 1678. 

IV. Hopestiii, born in Weymouth, May 29, 1641; married Rev. 
George Shove, of Dorchester, afterwards third pastor of 
the church at Taunton, Mass. She died March 7, 1674. 


[This family record is from the Reed Genealogy. | 


Rev. Tuomas THACHER was the son of Rev. Peter 
Thacher, rector of St. Edmund’s, Salisbury, County 
Wilts, England, born May 1, 1620, before his father was 
inducted into office. The family was probably originally 
from Somersetshire. He came to America in the ship 
“James ” from Southampton, landing in Boston, June 4, 


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1635, with his uncle Anthony. He made his prepara- 
tory studies with Rev. Charles Chauncey, of Scituate, 
afterwards president of Harvard College. He was 
ordained.as pastor over the church in Weymouth, Jan. 
2, 1644-5, where he remained for about twenty years, 
when he removed to Boston, and was installed Feb. 16, 
1670, as the first pastor of the Third Church (the Old 
South), in which position he remained until his death, 
Oct. 15, 1678. He was one of the most eminent schol- 
ars of his day, and, according to President Stiles, the best 
Arabic scholar in the country, a faithful pastor, and an 
interesting preacher. He was also a skilful physician; 
the author of a paper called “ A Guide in the Small- 
Pox and Measles,” the first medical publication issued 
in this country. “He was a man of prayer and an 
exemplary ministerial character,” but particularly op- 
posed to the Quakers; and whenever he found any 
of their books among his people he was careful to take 
possession of them. He married, first, May 11, 1643, 
Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Rev. Ralph Partridge, 
of Duxbury, Mass., by whom he had: Tuomas, RALPH 
or RopoutrHus, Perer (born in Salem), baptized 
July 20, 1651 (graduate of Harvard College, 1671), 
Patience, and HuizABTen, who married, first, Vathan- 
tel Davenport, the gallant captain killed in the Narra- 
gansett fight, Dec. 19, 1675. She afterwards married, 
in 1677, Samuel Davis. Mrs. Elizabeth Thacher died 
June 2, 1664, and soon after Rev. Thomas married, 
1665, Margaret, widow of Jacob Sheaffe, of Boston, 
daughter of Henry Webb, and removed to that city, 
where he united with the First Church, Aug. 4, 1667; 
and when the Old South Church was formed, in conse- 
quence of troubles growing out of the bringing of Mr. 
Davenport from New Haven, he was called to be its 
pastor. 


164 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


Rey. Samuewt Torrey, the successor of Rev. Mr. 
Thacher, in Weymouth, was the son of Capt. William 
Torrey, one of the early settlers of that town, and 
one of the most important names upon its records, who 
came to Weymouth from England with his family in 
1640. Samuel was at that time eight years old, having 
been born in the old country in 1632. He was edu- 
cated at Harvard College, entering that institution 
about 1650, but did not graduate on account of the 
lengthening of the term of study for one year, with 
which there was so much dissatisfaction that he, with 
several others, among whom were Rev. Josiah Wins- 
low, Rev. Ichabod Wiswell, of Duxbury, agent for 
Plymouth Colony at the court of England, Rev. Samuel 
Waterman, of Fairfield, Rev. Mr. Brimsmead, of Marl- 
borough, all afterwards men of distinction in the colonies, 
left the college without taking their degrees. The early 
record of his ministry is somewhat obscure; but he seems 
to have first preached at Hull, about 1656, where he 
remained for several years. It appears also that he 
preached for a time in Weymouth previous to his ordi- 
nation, in the absence of the pastor, Rev. Mr. Thacher. 
He was ordained Feb. 14, 1664-5, and continued as 
pastor of this church until his death, which occurred 
April 21, 1707, at the age of seventy-five years, fifty- 
one of which he spent in the ministry. He was mar- 
ried, first, May 15, 1657, while residing at Hull, by Gov. 
Bellingham, to Mary, daughter of Hon. Hdward Raw- 
son. She died without issue, Sept. 10, 1692; and he 
married, second, July 30, 1699, Mary, widow of Wial- 
liam Symmes, of Charlestown, who survived him until 
March 12, 1721. There were no children by this mar- 
riage. 

Mr. Torrey had the reputation of being one of the 
ablest ministers of his day. He was of fine personal 
appearance, with excellent and thoroughly trained intel- 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 165 


lectual powers, and a dignity of deportment singularly 
appropriate to his position as estimated by the require- 
ments of that period, at the same time cheerful and 
agreeable in social intercourse. He was a leader, rec- 
ognized and acknowledged by the greatest minds of 
his day. Twice he was elected president of Harvard 
College: first, in 1681, to succeed President Oakes; and 
second, in 1684, upon the death of President Rogers, 
but declined the position. Three times he preached the 
election sermon before the General Court, May 27, 
1674, May 16, 1683, and May 29, 1695, all of which 
have been printed. During his ministry he was much 
sought after to assist in ordinations, at councils, and 
upon other public occasions; and it was during his term 
of service that the old meeting-house upon Burying 
Hill, having become from age and decay unfit for 
further use, was taken down, and a new one erected in 
1682 on the site of the present house of worship. 


Rey. Perer THACHER was called to the pastorate of 
the church in Weymouth after the death of Rev. Mr. 
Torrey. He was son of Zhomas Thacher, Jr., and 
grandson of Rev. Thomas Thacher, former pastor at 
Weymouth; born 1678; graduated at Harvard College, 
1696; and was ordained at Weymouth, Noy. 26, 1707. 
He was a man of excellent abilities and acquirements, 
of fine personal address, and soon became very popular. 
For a time his ministry gave promise of great useful- 
ness and success; but after a few years, it becoming 
apparent that he might become colleague to Rev. Mr. 
Webb, of the North Church, Boston, the happy rela- 
tions heretofore existing with his people at Weymouth 
became disturbed, and at the end of nearly twelve years 
he resigned his charge, and was dismissed in 1718, 
although as it appears In an irregular way, for the man- 
ner of it caused much ill feeling, net only in the church 


166 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


at Weymouth, but also in the North Church, Boston, 
over which he was installed, Jan. 28, 1723, as colleague 
with Rev. Mr. Webb; and so great was the dissatisfac- 
tion in the latter church, that a disturbance occurred at 
the installation which nearly prevented the service, and 
resulted in the withdrawal of about fifty members, who 
formed a new church. Mr. Thacher remained pastor 
of the North Church, Boston, until his death, March 1, _ 
1739, at the age of sixty-one years, or, as another account 
has it, sixty-three years. For afew years prior to his 
settlement at Weymouth, Mr. Thacher taught school in 
Hatfield, Mass. 


Rev. THomAs PAInNzE, who was ordained as the 
successor of Rev. Peter Thacher over the church in 
Weymouth, was the son of James and Berthia ( Thacher- 
Paine, and grandson of Thomas Paine, who was the first 
of the family in this country, and who settled in Hast- 
ham, in 1639. He was born in Yarmouth, April 9, 1695, 
O.S., in a house brought from England, and which is 
yet standing. He received a liberal education, gradu- 
ating at Harvard College in 1717, having been prepared 
for that institution by Rev. Jonathan Russell, of Barn- 
stable. In college he applied himself vigorously to his 
studies, particularly mathematics and astronomy, in 
which he excelled, pursuing them much beyond the 
usual college course of that day. In 1718 and 1719 he 
published almanacs in his own name. He calculated an 
eclipse of the sun, which was to occur in 1806, which 
was found to be in exact accord with later calculations. 
He also gave special attention to the study of Latin, 
Greek, Hebrew and French. In August, following 
his graduation, he commenced the study of divinity with 
Rey. Theophilus Barnard, of Andover, and after com- 
pleting his theological studies he accepted a call to 
settle as pastor of the church at Weymouth, and was 


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ordained Aug. 19, 1719. Here he remained as long 
as he continued in the ministry, but the unfortunate 
financial condition of the parish, which had during his 
administration lost a large portion of its support in 
the setting-off of the second precinct in 1723, ren- 
dered his stay not always pleasant. Troubles were 
constantly arising from difficulty in raising his salary, 
and this, with ill health, compelled him in 1730 to 
ask his dismission, which, however, was not granted 
until April 15, 1754, when his connection with the 
church and parish was formally terminated. During 
the later years of his pastorate he resided in Boston, 
although attending to the duties of his office in Wey- 
mouth. After retiring from the ministry he engaged in 
commercial pursuits and carried on a large domestic 
and foreign trade. He was also extensively engaged in 
iron manufactures, having foundries in Abington and 
Bridgewater. In his business transactions he accumu- 
lated considerable wealth, which was, however, lost 
subsequently by the perils of war and the fluctuations 
of the currency. He married, April 21, 1721, Hunice, 
daughter of Lev. Samuel and Abigail ( Willard-T'reat, 
of Eastham, and grand-daughter of Col. Robert Treat, 
for thirty years governor of Connecticut, when she was 
but sixteen years of age, by whom he had three sons 
and two daughters, of whom the late Hon. Robert Treat 
Paine, of national reputation, was one. Mr. Paine was 
probably second in point of talent and education to 
none of his predecessors in the Weymouth pulpit, and 
his kindness of disposition and gentleness of manner 
were such that had it not been for the unfortunate 
financial position of the parish, he might probably have 
remained there during his life. He died in German- 
town, Quincy, Mass., May 31, 1757, and was buried in 
the Old North Cemetery, Weymouth. His wife died 
Oct. 17, 1747, aged forty-two years. 


168 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


The following is the record of his family. 
Children : — 


I. Asicait, born March 6, 1725; married Joseph Greenleaf, 
Oct. 17, 1749; died Jan. 15, 1808. 
II. Rosert Treat, born Oct. 9, 1727; died Oct. 21, 1727. 
II. Tuomas, born July 3, 1729; died Aug. 19, 1730. 
IV. Rosert Treat, born in Boston, March 11, 1731; married 
Sally Cobb. 
V. Eunice, born May 11, 1733; died Feb. 2, 1803; unmar- 
ried. 
The first three children were probably born in Weymouth ; the two 
latter in Boston. 


Rev. Witir1AmM SmiTH, of Charlestown, was the 
successor in the Weymouth pulpit [First Parish] of 
Rev. Thomas Paine. He was the son of William and 
Abigail (Fowle- Smith, born in Charlestown, Mass., 
Jan. 29, 1706-7. He was educated for the ministry, 
graduating at Harvard College in 1725. He was called 
to the pastorate of the Weymouth church, and ordained 
to that office on the first Wednesday of Decemher, 1734, 
in which position he continued until his death, Sept. 17, 
1783, in the seventy-seventh year of his age, and the 
forty-ninth of his ministry. The charm of his manner 
and the conciliatoriness of his conduct soon -won for 
him the hearts of his people, which he retained to the 
last. ‘“ He was loved and respected by them, especially 
the last generation, who grew up and were educated 
under his ministry.” The following inscriptions are 
copied from the gravestones in the Old North Cemetery, 
Weymouth, where Mr. and Mrs. Smith lie buried: — 


‘‘TIn memory of | Rev*. Wiriram Smirn, pastor of | the 1* ch" of 
Ct. in Weymouth | Ob‘. Sept’. 17, 1783, 4. 77,in | the 49™ year 
of his Ministry. | As a Divine he waseminent | As a Preacher of the 
Gospel | eloquent and devotional in life | he exhibited the Virtues 
of the | Religion which he had taught | in Death felt its Supports & 

| closed a long & useful life | with hopes full of Immortality.” 





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‘¢ Here lies the body of Mrs. | Exizasera Smits, the amiable and 
] pious Consort of the Rev* William | Smith, pastor of the first chureh 
| of Christ in Weymouth, who died | October the 1", 1775, in the 
| 54 year of her Age.” 

‘* Thus write the voice from heaven. 

Proclaims the virtuous dead are 

ever blest. Their works immortalize their 

Names. ‘Their labors cease and here they rest 

till that bright morn shall wake the 

beauteous clay to bloom and sparkle in eternal day.” 


Mr. Smith married (date of publishment, Aug. 3, 
1740) Elizabeth, daughter of Col. John and Elizabeth 
(Norton- Quincy, born in 1722. [The Weymouth rec- 
ords say Widow Hlizabeth.} They had the following 
children: — 


I. Mary, born in Weymouth, Dee. 9, 1741; married, Nov. 25, 
1762, Richard, son of John and Elizabeth ( Pearse-Cranch, 
born at Kingsbridge, Eng., November, 1726, and came 
to Boston in the ship ‘‘ Wilmington,” in 1746. He was 
a distinguished man in his State, having been deputy to 
the General Court from Old Braintree, State senator and 
judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He resided in 
Quincy. 

II. Asicar, born in Weymouth, Noy. 11, 1744; married, Oct. 
25, 1764, John, son of Dea. John and Susanna (Boylston- 
Adams, born in Braintree (now Quincy), Oct. 9, 1735; 
one of the founders of the Republic, than whom none was 
more active and influential; second President of the 
United States. They were the parents of John Quincy 
Adams, the illustrious sixth President of his native 
country. 

III. Wrutam, born in Weymouth, Dee. 1, 1746; married, Jan. 
3, 1779, Martha White. [Wyman says he married 
Catherine Louisa Salmon, probably a second marriage. | 

IV. Exizasery, born in Weymouth, date not on record, bhap- 
tized April 8, 1750; married, first (date of publication 
Ang. 23, 1777), Rev. John Shaw, of Haverhill; second, 
Rev. S. Peabody. 


The following notice appeared in the Boston Gazette 
of Sept. 22, 1783: — 


170 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


‘“¢On Wednesday last departed this life at Weymouth, aged sev- 
enty-seven, the Reverend pious and venerable Mr. William Smith, 
Pastor of the first church in that Town. His remains were very respect- 
fully interred on Saturday last.” 


Rey. Jacosp Norton, the twelfth pastor of the First 
Church at Weymouth, was the son of Samuel and Mary 
(Porter-Norton, born in Abington, Mass., Feb. 12, 1764. 
His father (son of Capt. John and Hlizabeth (Thaxter 
Norton), was a native of Hingham, Mass., and his 
mother a descendant of Richard Porter, who settled in 
Weymouth in 1635. He also was a graduate of Har- 
vard College of the class of 1785, and soon after re- 
ceived a call to settle as minister over the old church of 
his maternal ancestor in Weymouth, and was ordained 
Oct. 10, 1787, where he continued until July 10, 1824, 
when he was dismissed. ‘This was his only pastorate. 
He was a man of fine talents and education and a 
scholar of high rank. He published many controversial 
works, and his discussions upon theological subjects 
were conducted with great ability and won for him a 
high reputation. The early years of his ministry were 
prosperous, but during the latter portion of his stay with 
that church his frequent doctrinal changes caused much 
trouble and perplexity and finally terminated his con- 
nection with it. The point of greatest difference being 
upon the question of baptism, changing from a strong 
pedobaptist to as decided an opponent, in which move- 
ment he failed to receive the sympathies and support 
of his people. He afterwards removed to Billerica, 
where he died Jan. 17, 1858, at the age of ninety-four 
years lacking twenty-six days, retaining his mental and 
physical faculties to a wonderful degree until the last. 
After retiring from the pastorate, he changed his relig- 
ious views, first to the Unitarian, and later to the Uni- 
versalist. He was, when settled, an extreme Calvinist. 


Ye 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. Lit 


He married, Feb. 11, 1789, Elizabeth, daughter of 
Richard and Mary (Smith-Cranch (baptized in Wey- 
mouth, Noy. 27, 1763, by Rev. William Smith, her 
grandfather), by whom he had the following children: — 


I. Ricnarp Crancu, born in Weymouth, March 12, 1790; a 
graduate of Harvard College of 1808; died at Alexan- 
dria,’ D. C., Oct. 13, 1821. 
II. Witiram Situ, born in Weymouth, Dec. 29, 1791; a 
graduate of Harvard College of 1812; died at Ports- 
mouth, N. H., July 19, 1827. 
Ill. Jacos Porter, born in Weymouth, Dec. 16, 1793; mar- 
ried, Oct. 4, 1818, Harriet, daughter of John and 
Hannah (Patterson- Holbrook, born in Weymouth, April 
26, 1796; resided in Boston. 
IV. Epwarp, born in Weymouth, Oct. 24,1795; was captured 
during the war with England, and died in Dartmoor 
Prison, Sept. 29, 1814. 
V. Tuomas Boytston Apams, born in Weymouth, Feb. 17, 
1799 ; died at Fayetteville, N. C., July 23, 1831. 
VI. Exizaseru, born in Weymouth, May 28, 1802. 
VII. Mary Cranou, born in Weymouth, May 19, 1804. 
VII. Lucy Ann, born in Weymouth, May 13, 1806. 


Mrs. Norton died in Weymouth, Jan. 25, 1811; and 
Mr. Norton married, second (date of publishment in 
Weymouth, Feb. 20, 1813), Hannah Bowers, 2d, of 
Billerica. 

Mr. Norton was a tall, erect, spare man of dignified 
appearance and pleasant address, and, notwithstanding 
his change of religious belief, the neighboring clergy- 
men esteemed him highly, although they deplored his 
heresy. 


Rey. JostAn Bent, Jr., of Milton, Mass., was the 
successor of Mr. Norton, at Weymouth. He was born 
in Milton, Mass., Oct. 1, 1797; graduated at Harvard 
University in 1822, and pursued his theological studies 
at Princeton Seminary, which he entered soon after his 
graduation at Cambridge. He remained, however, at 


172 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


that institution but about a year and left, continuing 
his studies probably with a private teacher, as was for- 
merly the custom. In 1824 he received a call to settle 
over the church and parish at North Weymouth, where 
he was ordained Oct. 13. He remained in this position 
until Oct. 10, 1833, when he was dismissed on account 
of trouble arising from the Masonic controversy. He 
soon after removed to Falmouth, Mass., and was 
installed as pastor over the church there Feb. 5, 1834, 
and continued as such until his dismissal, Feb. 22, 1837. 
On April 19, of the same year, he was installed as 
pastor over the First Church of Amherst, Mass., where 
he remained until his death Nov. 19, 1839. He was a 
remarkably successful pastor, and it is said, that in the 
fifteen years of his ministry over his three parishes, not 
less than five hundred persons were converted. 

Upon the Weymouth Church records are found the 
following baptisms of children of Rey. Josiah and 
Paulina Bent: — 


I. Josran, Oct. 2, 1825. 

II. Pavia Ricsg, June 1, 1829. 
III. Samurert Apams, Aug. 16, 1829. 
IV. Susan Saran, Nov. 138, 1830. 

V. Henry K. W., April 1, 1832. 
VI. TuHacuer Tucker, Oct. 6, 1833. 


(The following sketch of Rev. John Charles Phillips, the fourteenth 
pastor of the church at North Weymouth, Mass., was furnished by his 
brother, Wendell Phillips, Esq. Mr. Phillips was a descendant of one of 
the oldest and most prominent families in Massachusetts, and one that 
has always borne an honorable record: —) 


“ Rev. JOHN CHARLES PHILLIPs was born in Boston, 
Mass., Noy. 15, 1807, and was the son of Hon. John 
Phillips, the first mayor of that city. He was educated 
at the Boston Public Latin School, and after passing a 
year at the military academy of Capt. Partridge, at 
Norwich, Vt., was graduated at Harvard College with 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 175 


the class of 1826. He studied law with the Hon. 
Samuel Hubbard, afterwards a judge of the Supreme 
Court of Massachusetts. After completing a full course 
of legal study, his inclination drawing him strongly to 
the ministry, he passed three years at the Andover 
Theological Institution, and was ordained, Dec. 18, 
1833, over the North Parish of Weymouth. There he 
remained about four years, respected and beloved by 
his people. He married, Dec. 24, 1833, Harriet, the 
daughter of Francis Welch, of Boston. On Dec. 26, 
1839, he was installed over the First Congregational 
Church, of Methuen, Mass., and his pastorate there lasted 
more than twenty years, when the state of his health 
obliged him to resign and he was never afterwards 
able to preach. 

An extract from the resolutions passed by the church 
at that time shows how he was valued by his people: — 


‘ Resolved, That the length of his ministry, the uniform kindness 
of feeling between pastor and people, and between him and the people 
of other denominations, with the general prosperity of this church and 
society during that time, will indicate more clearly than language his 
great worth as a man and the value of his labors and example as a 
Christian minister.’ 


He returned to Boston and died there Dec. 5, 1878, 
having nearly completed his seventy-first year. He left 
a widow and four children: one son, Mr. John C. 
Phillips; Margaret W., the wife of A. B. Hall; 
Miriam W., the wife of Dr. W. H. Rollins; Anna 
Dunn, unmarried. His intellect was keenly logical; 
whatever truth he recognized he saw with marvellous 
clearness, stated it with rare precision, and defended it 
with quick, close argument, so exhaustive as to leave 
little to be added. United with this quality was a rare 
wit, lavish in illustrations, prompt at retort, and dispel- 
ling angry clouds with the lightning of a fine humor. 


174 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


His preaching was conversational, he never thundered; 
short, terse sentences full of thought, epigrammatic; such 
as lodged everything securely in memory, and so direct 
as to reach every man’s conscience; earnest, as of one 
who believed all he said and with a life behind it so 
consistent that men willingly listened and yielded cheer- 
fully to its influence. As a disputant he never hurried 
or interrupted his opponent; was always serene and 
self-poised, waiting patiently until the other had ceased 
speaking, and ever ready to state his opponent’s case 
for him even stronger than he could do it himself. 
His simple tastes made him prefer a settlement in the 
country, where he could come into closer communion 
and have a nearer and more direct influence on his 
hearers. He liked plain people and the manners of 
common life; always wishing to get close to his audi- 
ence or companion. But such was his native dignity 
that neither playful wit nor familiar manners ever 
emboldened one to take any liberty with him. He was 
singularly free from ambition; anxious to 6e, careless 
what he seemed, and little heeding men’s judgments. 
Intellectually fearless and independent; thoroughly 
convinced that truth could always defend itself without 
artificial aid, and hence uniformly tolerant and liberal; 
willing to waive dogmas if a man’s purpose was right 
and his face Zionward. 

Ata time when some abolitionists were accustomed 
to interrupt Sunday services, he saw Stephen S. Foster 
seated before him in the pews. Mentioning the fact to 

‘his people, he invited Mr. Foster to come to the pulpit 
and give his testimony. The fearless and eloquent agi- 
tator rose to say, ‘ When I am ¢nvited to a pulpit, it is 
evidence that I have no occasion to go there.’ 

Mr. Phillips occasionally asked clergymen of other 
denominations to preach for him, saying, ‘If I cannot 
hold my people with a hundred sermons a year against a 


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few from men of other views, they cannot be worth hold- 
ing.’ His prayers revealed the depth and sincerity of 
his nature. There are very few lips that God touches 
with fitness to utter for us our prayers. Only a life of 
peculiar simplicity and seriousness can give this grace. 
Those who knelt with him at the altar cannot fail to 
remember the simplicity and tenderness, the deep feel- 
ing and trembling pathos of his prayers, which seemed 
to lift us into the very presence of God; and one was 
sure that he who offered them must stand with familiar 
love at the very feet of the Father. 


‘ Thrice blest whose lives are faithful prayers, 
Whose lives in higher love endure ; 
What souls possess themselves so pure, 
Or is their blessedness like theirs?’ ” 


Rev. JosHuA Emery, JR., the successor of Rev. 
John C, Phillips in the pulpit of the First Church of 
Weymouth, was the son of Joshua and Hlizabeth ( Welch- 
Emery, born in Newburyport, Mass., Aug. 5, 1807; 
was fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover; 
graduated at Amherst College in 1831, and pursued 
his theological studies at Andover Seminary, from which 
he graduated in 1834. He was ordained as pastor over 
the Orthodox Church at Fitchburg, Mass., May 13, 
1835, where he remained but a short time, when he was 
called to the First Church at Weymouth, over which he 
was installed Jan. 25, 1838, and relieved from active ser- 
vice at his own request, Oct. 22, 1873, feeling the burden 
of years and the duties of his office to be too great for 
his strength. The remainder of his life was spent in 
quiet retirement. He died April 24, 1882, in his 
seventy-sixth year, at the residence of his son Charles 
F., in Kansas City, Mo., and his remains have since been 
removed for burial to Boxford, Mass. 

“In his home life he was the kindest of fathers, and 


176 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


his spiritual life was such as to exert an influence for 
good, not easily forgotten, on all with whom he asso- 
ciated. Before his death and for the greater part of 
his retired life he was with his children, and he died 
knowing that all of his children were church members. 
I shall never forget the Sabbath previous to his death. 
I was with him, and the day was spent mostly in 
prayer and singing, in which, though very weak, he 
joined, and expressed himself as being so happy, as he 
should ‘soon see Jesus.’” In person he was above the 
medium height, slenderly built, but of very erect car- 
riage and brisk movement, thin of feature, with an 
aquiline nose, somewhat prominent, and of a pleasing 
countenance. He was highly valued as an associate and 
friend by his neighbors in the ministry. To strangers 
he had sometimes the appearance of reserve and aus- 
terity, but upon acquaintance he was found to be very 
genial and agreeable. He was forward in all the 
benevolent enterprises of the day, and diligently 
labored to promote their interests. He married, May 
19, 1835, Harriet, daughter of Jacob and Lucy (Man- 
ning-Peabody, by whom he had the following chil- 
dren: — 
I. Harriet Peanopy, born in Fitchburg, July 23, 1836. 
II. Josnua, born in North Weymouth, June 1, 1840; a boot and 
shoe merchant, residing in Chicago. 
III. Cuarves Francis, born in North Weymouth, March 10, 1849 ; 
a boot and shoe merchant residing in Kansas City, Mo. 
IV. Marcaret, born in North Weymouth, Sept. 2, 1850, and 


died there, Sept. 1, 1852. 
Harriet P. is married and yet living. 


Rev. FRANKLIN Perry CuHaAprn, the present pastor 
of the First Church in Weymouth, and the sixteenth 
since its organization, son of Hbenezer and Sarah (Rob- 
inson-Chapin, was born in Gill, Franklin Co., Mass., 
Aug. 14, 1827; pursued his preparatory studies at 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. Lia 


Shelburne Falls Academy, and graduated at Amherst 
College in 1852. He studied theology at the Bangor 
Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1857. 
His first settlement as a minister of the gospel was 
over the Congregational Church in Camden, Me., where 
he was ordained Nov. 11, 1857, and where he remained 
for about ten years, being dismissed Sept. 3, 1867. Soon 
after this he received a call from the Second Church, 
Hast Street, Amherst, Mass., which he accepted, and 
was installed as its pastor, Jan. 21, 1868. He remained 
in this position for a little more than three years, when 
ill health compelled him to relinquish it, and he was 
dismissed March 27, 1871. During the two succeeding 
years he served as superintendent of schools of that 
town, at the end of which time he received a eall from 
the First Church and Parish of Weymouth, Mass., 
which he accepted, and was installed as pastor, Oct. 22, 
1873, which position he still retains. He married, first, 
Dec. 2, 1857, Sarah Sumner, daughter of Addi and 
Margaret (Sumner- Wallace, born in Hadley, Mass., 
Sept. 2, 1830, and died in Amherst, Mass., Jan. 22, 
1868. 
Children : — 
I. Frank Sumner, born in Camden, Me., July 7, 1860. 
II. Cares Emmons, born in Camden, Me., March 3, 1862. 


Ill. Saran Louisa, born in Camden, Me., Nov. 21, 1863. 
IV. Evwin Rosinson, born in Camden, Me., Aug. 29, 1865. 


He married, second, Jan. 11, 1871, Margaret, daugh- 
ter of Robert and Hlizabeth S. (Pendleton-McFarlane, 
born in Camden, Me., March 23, 1842, a missionary 
among the Esquimaux in Labrador, who died in Wey- 
mouth, Mass., Oct. 25, 1882. Child: — 


V. Roserr McFartang, born in Weymouth, Oct. 5, 1877. 


Rey. JAmes Baywey, the first pastor of the Second 
Church in Weymouth, was born in Roxbury, Mass., in 


12 


178 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


1698. He graduated at Harvard College in 1719, and 
was ordained at South Weymouth, Sept. 26, 1723. 
After his graduation, he appears to have lived in Ando- 
ver for a time, where he taught school, and probably 
pursued at the same time his theological studies. ‘The 
following entry is found upon the records of the First 
Church, Andover, Mass. (now North Andover), under 
date of Feb. 26, 1721-2: “Mr. James Bailey, school- 
master, and Sarah Bayley, wife of Mr. J. Bailey, 
removed to Weymouth.” He died Aug. 22, 1766, and 
was buried in the old graveyard on Pleasant Street. 
His gravestone bears the following inscription: — 


“SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI.” 


‘‘ Here lies interred y* remains of y® Rev. James Bailey, born at 
Roxbury, took his 1 degree at Harvard College 1719, ordained 1* 
Pastor of y° 24 church of Christ in Weymouth Sept. 26, 1723. After. 
a lingering indisposition, departed this life Aug. 22%, 1766, in y* 69™ 
year of his age in y° firm, supporting belief of those doctrines of 
grace which he had for y* space of 43 years preached publickly and 
from house to house. 


The sweet remembrance of y° just, 
Shall flourish when they sleep in dust.” 


The following is from the Weymouth town records. 
Children of Rev. James and Sarah Bayley: — 


I. James, born probably in Andover, Jan. 15, 1722. 
II. Saran, born in Weymouth, April 27, 1724. 
ae cee born in Weymouth, July 22, 1725. 
V. Josuua, born in Weymouth, Nov. 24, 1726. 
VI. Tuomas, born in Weymouth, Oct. 10, 1728. 
VII. Samuet, bornin Weymouth, March 27, 1730. 
VIII. Deacon NatHanitt, born in Weymouth, Dec. 27, 1731. 
IX. Danrtez, born in Weymouth, April 1, 1734. 
X. Sarau, born in Weymouth, June 16, 1735. 
XI. Jonny, born in Weymouth, Feb. 2, 1737. 
XII. Mary, born in Weymouth, Oct. 17, 1742. 
XIII. Bengamin, bornin Weymouth, Dec. 1, 17435. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 179 


Rev. Smrcon Winwtams, the second pastor of the 
Second Church in Weymouth, Mass., was born in Haston, 
Mass., in 1743; graduated at New Jersey College in 
1765, and was ordained at South Weymouth, Oct. 26, 
1768, his first and only pastorate, where he died, May 
31, 1819, and was buried in the cemetery on Main Street, 
with the following inscription upon his gravestone: — 


‘¢ This Monument is erected in Memory of the Rev. Simeon Wil- 
liams, the 2¢ Pastor of the South Church in Weymouth. He was 
born in Easton, was graduated at N. J. College in 1765, was ordained 
Oct. 26, 1768, & died May 31, 1819, in the 76" year of his age and 
the 51* of his ministry. 


Though earthly shepherds dwell in dust, 
The aged and the young ; 

The watchful eye in darkness closed, 
And mute the instructive tongue, 

The eternal Shepherd still survives, 
New comfort to impart ; 

His eyes still guide us, and his voice 
Still animates our heart.” 


His wife, who died Aug. 10, 1823, aged seventy-four 
years, lies buried by his side. 

Rey. Simeon Williams was married (date of publish- 
ment Sept. 1, 1770) to Mrs. Anna Crocker, of Hast- 
ham, Mass., by whom he had the following children: — 


I. Awwna, born in Weymouth, Aug. 31, 1771. 
II. Sopura, born in Weymouth, Dec. 29, 1772. 
UI. Soruia, born in Weymouth, Oct. 7, 1776. 
IV. Simeon, born in Weymouth, April 5, 1778. 
V. Betsey, born in Weymouth, July 16, 1780. 
VI. JosepH Crocker, born in Weymouth, Oct. 26, 1783. 
VII. Tuomas, born in Weymouth, March 11, 1787. 


180 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


CHAPTER XI. 


THE PHYSICIANS OF WEYMOUTH.! 


Early Medical History— Salisbury — Nicholas Byram— Thomas Thacher 
— Nathaniel White — James Hayward — Benjamin Richards — 
Daniel French — Lazarus Andrews Beale — Cotton Tufts — James 
Torrey — Thomas Vinson— James Lovell — Noah Fifield— Apple- 
ton Howe — Jacob Richards — David Torrey — Timothy Gordon — 
Joseph Dorr— Ebenezer Turell Learned — Hervey Eliphaz Weston 
— George Fordyce Fifield — Charles Coffran — Daniel Lewis Gibbens 
— Josiah Ball—Ira H. Perry — Ephraim Lewis Warren — John 
Henry Gilbert — George Wyman Fay — William Cranch Bond Fifield 
—ILemuel Fuller— Charles Carroll Tower—Joseph Corlieu — 
Francis Flint Forsaith — Oliver Perry Piper — Moses Reuben Greely 
— Granville Wilson Tinkham — Roscoe Ellsworth Brown — John 
Chisholm Fraser — William Abram Drake — Joseph Porter Hodg- 
don — Norton Quincy Tirrell — William Fales Hathaway — Judson 
L. Beck — Mrs, Dr. Tuck — Mrs. Dr. Tirzah E. Goodwin. 


THe old settlement of Wessagusset claims priority, 
as far as I can ascertain, as to the presence of a physi- 
cian, over any place in New England except Plymouth. 
Certain difficulties are encountered in obtaining the 
early medical history of any community, especially if 
that history dates back near the first settlement of the 
country. One of these is the fact that, at that early 
date, the practice of medicine was not on so recognized 
a basis as at the present time. ‘There were no medical 
schools or associations in the country, and each doctor 


‘This chapter, covering an outline of the medical profession of the 
town with brief biographical sketches of its various members, who have, 
as far as has been ascertained, lived here, has been prepared wiih great 
care and much labor by Francis Flint Forsaith, M. D., a physician of 
more than twenty years’ standing in the town, and is a valuable addition 
to the sketch. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 181 


was isolated and independent. There was no author- 
ized power for conferring degrees, and any one, however 
incompetent, might assume the title Dr., with no author- 
ity but his own, and be recognized as such to a certain 
extent. 

A third reason is because at that early date the cler- 
ical and medical professions were occasionally united in 
the same individual, and this person would usually be 
recognized as a minister rather than a doctor, so that 
his name would not appear in the annals as a physi- 
cian. 

Cotton Mather (Mag., I., p. 428, 2d ed. Lond., 1702) 
says: “It is well known that until two hundred years 
ago, physic in England was no profession distinct 
from divinity.” He also says: “Ever since the days of 
Luke, the evangelist, skill in physic has been frequently 
professed and practised by persons whose most declared 
business was the study of divinity. But I suppose the 
greatest frequency of this angelical conjunction has been 
seen in those parts of America where they are mostly 
the poor to whom the gospel is preached by pastors 
whose compassion to them in their poverty invites them 
to supply the want of abler physicians.” 

These things and the general indefiniteness incident 
to a new settlement render the early history of the med- 
ical, as of every other profession, somewhat unsatis- 
factory. 

Thomas Weston’s company of “merchant adven- 
turers” set sail from Old England, April, A. D. 1622, 
under charge of Weston’s brother-in-law, Richard 
Green. Among them was a surgeon, a Mr. Salisbury, 
This Salisbury was the first representative of the medi- 
cal profession in Weymouth, and possibly the first in 
New England, although mention is made in the “ An- 
nals ” of Dr. Samuel Fuller of Plymouth, who wrote to 
Governor Bradford, June 28, 1630, that at the request 


182 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


of Mr. Warham, he “had been to Mattapan and let 
some twenty of these people blood.” Concerning the 
character of this man and his success in his pro- 
fession, history gives us no information, as far as I am 
aware, nor whether, when the settlement was tempo- 
rarily broken up, he followed Sanders to Maine or 
Standish to Plymouth. Neither does it inform us 
whether, during the times of Blackstone, Morrell, Hull, 
Jenner, Lenthal and Newman, up to the date when 
Byram came, there was any physician in the colony. 
It is highly probable, however, that there was, or else 
that the office of physician was assumed by some of the 
reverend gentlemen above mentioned. 


NicHoias Byram, a physician, came to Weymouth in 
1638. He remained here twenty-four years, and in 
1662 removed, with his family, to Bridgewater, being 
one of the first settlers of that town, and with his wife 
among the first members of the church there formed. 

Dr. Byram, according to family tradition, was the son 
of an English gentleman of the county of Kent, who 
removed to Ireland about the time Nicholas was born. 
His father sent him, at the age of sixteen, to visit his 
friends in England, in charge of a supposed friend who 
betrayed his trust, robbed him of his money, and sent 
him tothe West Indies, where he was sold to service to 
pay for his passage. After his term of service had 
expired he made his way to New England and ‘set- 
tled in Weymouth, ara removing, as aforesaid, to 
Bridgewater. 

He married Susannah, daughter of Abraham Shaw, 
of Dedham, and was the father of eight children, at least 
six of whom were born in Weymouth, viz.: — 

I. NuicHoras. 


Il. Asicait, who married Thomas Whitman. 
III. Dexiverance, who married John Porter. 





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IV. Experience, who married John Willis. 
V. SvUsANNAH, who married Samuel Edson. 
VI. Mary, who married Samuel Leach. 


He died in 1727. 


Rey. Tuomas T'HAcHER.— Contemporary with Dr. 
Byram for seventeen years was the Rev. Thomas 
Thacher. This man was the son of Rev. Peter Thacher, 
rector of St. Edmunds, Salisbury, in County Wilts, Eng- 
land. He was born May 1, 1620, and came over with 
his uncle Anthony, in the “James,” from Southampton, 
arriving in Boston, June 4, 1635. He then went to Ips- 
wich with his uncle and other friends, and, in order to 
avoid the peril of a return to England in August of the 
same year,—on which voyage all but Anthony and his 
wife were lost, — he was put under the direction of the 
Rey. Charles Chauncy, of Scituate, who prepared him 
for his profession “with great diligence,” as it is said. 

This Rev. Charles Chauncy, was equally celebrated 
as a divine and a physician, and Mr. Thacher received 
instruction in both these professions. His good sense, 
united with a general acquaintance with the science of 
the day, acquired for him a great reputation as a physi- 
cian, and, to complete his honors, Mather asserts that 
he “composed a Hebrew Lexicon, so compressed that 
within one sheet of paper he had given every consider- 
able word in the language.” 

He married, May 11, 1643, Hlizabeth, youngest 
daughter of ev. Ralph Partridge, of Duxbury, and 
was settled over the church at Weymouth, as successor 
to Rev. Samuel Newman, Jan. 2,1645. He spent about 
twenty years in Weymouth, and then removed to Bos- 
ton and joined the First Church there, Aug. 4, 1667. 

Mr. Thacher was installed as pastor over what is now 
the Old South Church, Feb. 16, 1670, and is said to have 
been the first minister ordained in America. He is said 


184 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


also to have been the author of the first medical work 
ever published in this country,—a tract entitled “A 
Brief Guide to the Common People, in the Small-Pox 
and Measles,” first published in Boston in 1677, and a 
second edition in 1702. 

Cotton Mather informs us that having preached for 
his father, he visited a sick person after going out of 
the assembly, whereby he got some harm, which turned 
into a fever of which he died Oct. 15, 1678, aged 
fifty-eight years. 


Dr. NATHANIEL WHITE was born in 1690,! accord- 
ing to Alden’s Karly History of the Medical Pro- 
fession, in the county of Norfolk, Mass., and to the 
inscription on his tombstone, or in 1701, as stated 
by Vinton, in his “ White Genealogy.” He graduated 
from Harvard College in 1725, and was a man of 
much talent and.eminent in his profession, although 
a very eccentric person. It is asserted that when he 
was summoned to a patient in stormy weather, he fre- 
quently would refuse to go, saying, “the weather was 
not fit for any one to go out”; but the messenger on his 
return usually found him, with his saddle-bags, at the 
bedside of his patient. He resided on the corner of Main 
and Pond Streets, the site of the house formerly occu- 
pied by Dr. Greeley, dentist. He married his first wife, 
Sarah Lovell, April 27, 1726, who died March 15, 1733; 


‘Dr. Nathaniel White, the son of Deacon Thomas and Mary (White. 
White, was born in Weymouth, Sept. 4,1701. His mother was the 
daughter of James and Sarah (Baker-White, of Dorchester, and grand- 
daughter of Edward White, the first of the name who settled in that town. 

As Deacon Thomas and Mary White were not married until 1700 and 
he then only twenty-seven years old, Nathaniel could not have been born 
earlier than the above date, and the date upon the gravestone is evidently 
an error. His age upon the town records is put down as fifty-eight. 
These facts agree with the record of Col. Asa White, one of the family 
born in 1736. — Weymouth Historical Society Papers. 


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his second, Ruth Holbrook, April 15, 1742, who died May, 
1752, aged thirty-seven; his third wife, Widow Abigail 
Keith, of Bridgewater, July 1, 1755. He was the son 
of Deacon Thomas White, grandson of Ebenezer White, | 
great-grandson of Thomas White, who was admitted a 
freeman of Massachusetts colony, March 3, 1635-6, 
“being then and previously an inhabitant of Weymouth 
and a member of the church.” 

In the old town records may be seen the following: 
“March 13, 1727, Voted, at the aforesaid meeting 
whether the Town will give to Doctor White five acres 
of land below hill, that was formerly granted to 
John Vinson, provided the said Doctor White continues 
in the town of Weymouth and in the practice of physic, 
and in case he shall remove out of town, said White 
to purchase said land, or to return it to the Town 
again” It passed in the affirmative. 

Where the first and third wives of Dr. White lie 
buried I do not know, but in the Highland Cemetery, 
South Weymouth, on a quaint, old moss-covered, double 
slate headstone, the following inscription is still to be 
made out, although some of the words are imperfect: — 





‘¢ Here lies inter* y® Body of Here lies Buried y°* Body of 
Doct’ Nathaniel White who de- | Mrs. Ruth White, wife to Doc. 
parted this life Nov. 284 1758, in | Nathaniel White, who died 1752, 
y° 68" year of his age. in y° 37" Year of Her Age. 


Thousands of journeys Night & Day 
I’ve travelled weary on y® way 

to heal the Sick but now I’ve gone 
A journey never to return.” 


On a headstone adjoining is the inscription: — 


‘¢ Here Lies Buried y* Body of Asa, son of Dr. Nathaniel White 
& Ruth his wife who Died 1747, Aged 8 months 4 days.” 


Children of Dr. Nathaniel and Sarah: — 


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I. Asner, born in Weymouth, Jan. 9,1727; died 1741. 
It. Ateruea, born in Weymouth, June 2, 1728. 
III. Asa, born in Weymouth, Dec. 22, 1729; died 1730. 
IV. Tamar, born in Weymouth, Jan. 19, 1731. 


Children of Dr. Nathaniel and Ruth: — 


V. Asyer, born in Weymouth, Dec. 24, 1742. 
VI. Asa, born in Weymouth; died 1747, aged 8 months. 
VII. Tuomas, born in Weymouth; died March 18, 1766, aged 14 


years. 


And perhaps others. 


Dr. James Haywarp. — For most of the information 
I have in regard to this physician, I acknowledge my 
indebtedness to the secretary of the Weymouth Histori- 
cal Society, who has kindly furnished me with many 
facts taken in part from the Suffolk probate records 
and in part from the Weymouth town records. Still 
the knowledge in regard to him is exceedingly meagre, 
not even comprising the date of his birth or his death. 

From the Suffolk record, book 34, page 282, we are 
informed that Nehemiah Hayward, of Hingham, tailor, 
was appointed to administer upon the estate of his 
brother James Hayward, physician, of Weymouth, 
March 27,1739. From page 536, same book, it appears 
that the estate of Dr. James Hayward, of Weymouth, 
was valued at £241 11s. 4d., January, 1739; Jeremiah 
Beal, Samuel French, Thomas Waterman, appraisers. In 
book 35, page 125, the account of Nehemiah Hayward 
in the settlement of his brother’s estate is given as fol- 
lows: Inventory amount £253 16s. 4d.; bills paid and 
allowed £32 5s. 8d., Sept. 3, 1740. By the same 
record it appears, book 37, page 487, that James Hay- 
ward, minor, aged about eighteen years, son of James 
Hayward, physician, of Weymouth, chooses Benjamin 
Wesson, of Stoneham, Middlesex County, Massachu- 
setts, housewright, for his guardian over property left 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 187 


him by his father, April 22, 1745; George Craddock, 
John Payne, witnesses. 

We are informed by the Weymouth records that 
Dr. James Hayward was published Aug. 3, 1738, to 
Sarah Green; also, that Lydia, daughter of James and 
Elizabeth Hayward, was born Feb. 24, 1736. These 
facts seem to be established by the records, that Dr. 
Hayward was a citizen of Weymouth, in comfortable 
circumstances, that he married two wives, that he had 
two children, a boy and a girl, and that he died previous 
to 1739. 


Dr. Bengamin Ricuarps, the same person who is 
spoken of in the genealogy of the Richards family as 
Ephraim Richards, was the son of Benjamin and 
Joanna (Hunt-Richards, born in Weymouth, Aug. 12, 
1714. He settled in practice in North Weymouth. 
He married Abigail, daughter of Hphraim and Sarah 
(Bass-Thayer, Braintree, Nov. 21, 1734. They had 
ten children, as follows: — 


I. Bensamin, born Nov. 29, 1735; died the same day. 

If. Bengamin, born Feb. 21, 1737; died the same day. 
Ill. Bensamin, born Dec. 24, 1739; died in the army, 1757. 
IV. Epnraim, born Oct. 25, 1740. 

V.  Asgicar, born Nov. 17, 1742. 

VI. Saran, born Oct. 13, 1744. 
VII. Joanna, born Sept. 26, 1746. 

VIII. Perer Hunt, born Jan. 13, 1749 ; waskilled on board a priva- 
teer, 1778. 

IX. Ruvru, born Aug. 20, 1750; died Sept. 26, 1833. 

X. Mary, born April 9, 1753. 


Dr. Richards is said to have been an eminent prac- 
titioner in his day, especially in the throat distemper, 
which, with the bloody flux, were the fatal epidemics, 
and prevailed with uncommon mortality in the years 


1746, 1747, 1748, 1749. One of his daughters married 


188 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


Rev. Jonathan French, who was born in Braintree, 
Jan. 30, 1740. Dr. Richards died Jan. 25, 1755, at the 
age of forty-one. 


Dr. DanteL F'rReNcH.—It is believed, on good au- 
thority, that Dr. French was born in Hingham about the 
year 1720,' although the precise date cannot be estab- 
lished. ‘The town records show his intention of mar- 
riage, Oct. 28, 1744. He married Mary Lane, of 
Hingham, and had nine children. 

Children: — 


I. ZerHAn, born in Weymouth, Aug. 4, 1745. 
WJ. Berry, baptized in Weymouth, Dec. 18, 1748; married 
Ichabod Pratt, June 5, 1773. 
III. Jorr, baptized in Weymouth, Nov. 25, 1750; married 
Elizabeth Hobart, Sept. 20, 1793. 
IV. Samvet, born in Weymouth, Dec. 12, 1753. 
V. Bera, born in Weymouth, June 1, 1755. 
VI. Mary, born in Weymouth, June 7, 1758. 
VII. Lypra, born in Weymouth, Feb. 19, 1761. 
VIII. Cercrra, born in Weymouth, April 7, 1763. 
IX. SreprHeN, born in Weymouth, Sept. 30, 1765. 


He lived in East Weymouth, on the site of the house 
recently occupied by the late Samuel French, his grand- 
son, on Commercial Street, nearly opposite the foot of 
Grant Street. The present building is the third one 
built on the same spot. The death of the doctor, ac- 


1Dr. Daniel French, son of Stephen and Abigail (Beale-French, was 
born in Hingham, date not on record. He was grandson of Capt. Stephen 
French, who was one of the most prominent men of Weymouth, and 
resided on what, until quite recently, was known as the Tufts place, on 
the corner of East and Green Streets, North Weymouth, and great-grand- 
son of Stephen French, the first settler of the name in that town. The 
family estate of the father of Dr. Daniel was upon both sides of the town 
line of Weymouth and Hingham, and he probably had dwellings in both 
towns; hence the confusion in the records. He was published Novy. 
30, 1740, to Ruth Stowell, of Hingham, who died Aug. 6, 1742, without 
issue. He afterwards married Mary Lane, Jan. 3, 1745. 


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cording to reliable private record, occurred in 1775, 
suddenly, while he was crossing a field near his house 
to visit a patient, at the age of about fifty-five. 


Dr. Lazarus ANpREws Beaue.— Dr. Ebenezer 
Alden, in his History of the Medical Profession in Nor- 
folk County, says, “The next physician in Weymouth, 
after Rev. Mr. Thacher, of whom any tradition remains, 
was Dr. Beale. He is said to have resided in the North 
Parish, near the Hingham line.” Dr. Alden evidently 
did not have any definite knowledge of him, and what 
little knowledge he did have seems to have been ob- 
tained from Dr. Richards — Benjamin probably — and 
was traditional. 

There was a Dr. Lazarus Beale, born probably about 
1753, son of Deacon Lazarus Beale and Ruth, his wife, 
grandson of Lazarus and Susanna Beale, great-grand- 
son of Jeremiah Beale and great-great-grandson of 
John, the progenitor of the family in America. 

Competent authority — Solomon Lincoln and George 
Lincoln — asserts that Dr. Beale, at one time, “lived in 
Newton, where he married Lydia Wheat. It is thought 
he afterwards moved to Hingham, as the records of that 
town show that two children were there born to him, 
Viz. — 

I. Marrua, born July 10, 1765. 

II. Danrex, born Sept. 27, 1767. 


“The ‘ Cohasset Precinct’ records establish the birth 
of these and also of 


ApHeus, born June 1, 1770. 
Lusitanus, born Sept. 15, 1772.” 


It is the opinion of Solomon J. Beale, Esq., that after 
the birth of the last child he removed to Weymouth 
from Cohasset. Nothing very definite can be estab- 
lished concerning him. 


190 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


Dr. Richards asserts that he sustained a “ good char- 
acter as a citizen and physician.” 

It will be remembered that the house once occupied 
by Lazarus Beale, grandfather of the present Elias S. 
Beals, Esq., is still standing (1884) near the junction 
of Commercial and Essex Streets, North Weymouth, 
and is now owned and, till recently, was occupied by 
Mr. Martin Goodman. 

The town records indicate the death of Lazarus A. 
Beale, Nov. 23, 1822, aged sixty-nine years." 


Dr. Cotton Turrts.— Hon. Cotton Tufts, A. M., 
M. D., M. M.S., A. A. S., was born in Medford, Mass., 
May 31, 1731. Peter Tufts, his great-grandfather was 
one of the first settlers of that town, and was its 
representative at the General Court about 1684. He 
had a son, Captain Peter, whose son Simon was born 
Jan. 31, 1700. This son received a liberal education, 
graduating from Harvard College in 1724, studied 
medicine and practised in his native town, where he held 
several positions of trust. 

This Dr. Simon Tufts had two sons, — Dr. Simon 
Tufts, Jr., who succeeded to his father’s practice and 
occupied the old homestead; and Dr. Cotton Tufts, the 
subject of this sketch. In the fourteenth year of his age, 
Cotton was admitted a member of Harvard College, 
graduated in 1749, and took his second degree in 1752. 
After graduation he taught school successfully, for a 


1'The above record is evidently greatly confused. If Lazarus A. was 
born, as his death record asserts, in 1753, he could not have been the 
father of the children attributed to him in Hingham and Cohasset. By 
the Weymouth record he was married Oct. 29, 1776, to Bethiah Lewis 
who died Aug. 5, 1809, aged forty-nine years. Children: — 


I. LyptA, born in Weymouth, June 10, 1782. 

II. ExizaBetu, born in Weymouth, July 11, 1785. 
Ill. Lewis, born in Weymouth, Oct. 13, 1793. 
IV. Eras, born in Weymouth, Nov. 13, 1796. 








SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 191 


time, and then turned his attention to the study of medi- 
cine, which he pursued under the direction of his elder 
brother. He graduated in due course, and shortly after- 
wards settled in Weymouth. As a practitioner of med- 
icine he was faithful, considerate, courteous, kind and 
sympathetic. His professional labors in his early and 
meridian life were extended and exacting. They were 
not confined to his own immediate territory, but were 
sought for and freely given to those at a distance. He 
labored for the spiritual as well as the temporal good 
of his patients. Even in his more advanced age, while 
engrossed with other cares and duties, he still found 
time to aid his professional brethren in difficult cases 
and to give a kind word of advice and cheer to the 
younger physicians around him. He was one of the 
original members of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 
was chosen vice-president and in due course of time 
became president, which office he held from 1787 to 
1793, discharging the duties of that office in an efficient 
and acceptable manner. In social life he was distin- 
guished by urbanity of manner and courteous address. 
in conversation he was pleasant, interesting, and instruc- 
tive. In the domestic circle he was the pleasant com- 
panion, the instructive friend, the kind husband and 
father. During the Revolutionary war his ardor, 
activity and zeal in the public service were conspicuous 
on many occasions. 

He was an exemplary Christian, and for more than 
forty years was deacon of the Old North Church in 
Weymouth. He was one of the trustees of Derby 
Academy, Hingham, and for several years president of 
the board. He was president of a society for moral 
reform, — probably a temperance organization, — then 
existing. He was an honored member of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences. _ 

He was for many years State senator, and in that 


192 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


position was firm, patriotic and influential. He was 
appointed a member of the convention for adopting the 
Constitution of the United States. As was remarked 
by the Rey. Jacob Norton, his pastor, in his funeral 
sermon, “he was a man of general erudition and attain- 
ment to no inconsiderable eminence. His researches 
were various and extended, judicious and accurate. 
He was an ardent Federalist, and happy had it been 
for our country in times past had its citizens in general 
been Federalists, or, to use a more appropriate term, 
Federal Republicans of this description.” 

No physician ever settled in Weymouth acquired a 
more extended and enviable reputation than Dr. Cotton 
Tufts. A man of strong character by nature, cultured 
and educated under the most refining influences, his 
power was felt by all the community in which he dwelt. 

He stood before them the urbane, old-school gentle- 
man, the type of which has long since died out from 
among us, he being, perhaps, its latest representative. 

Like a faithful servant, his duties all done, he rests 
from his labors, and his works do follow him. 

He died Dec. 8, 1815, in the eighty-fifth year of 
his age. His residence was very near the spot on 
which now stands the house of the Hon. James Hum- 
phrey, near the depot, North Weymouth. He married, 
first, Dec. 2, 1755, Lucy Quincy, of Braintree (now 
Quincy), by whom he had one child: — 


Corron, born in Weymouth, Aug. 4, 1752. 
Mrs. Lucy Tufts died Oct. 30, 1783, aet. 56 years; 


and Oct. 22, 1789, Dr. Tufts married, second, Mrs. 
Susanna Warner, of Gloucester. 


Dr. James Torrey was born in Ashford, Conn., in 
1756. His first employment was tanning of hides. He 
afterwards studied medicine, and began its practice in 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 193 


Lebanon, Conn. He then removed to Nantucket, and 
continued to practise in his profession there. ‘There he 
married Deborah Fitch, daughter of Gorham Fitch, of 
Nantucket. He served six weeks as surgeon’s mate in 
the war of the Revolution. He was also at one time 
surgeon of the Second Regiment, First Brigade, First 
Division, Massachusetts Militia. His commission was 
dated Sept. 3, 1800. His discharge bore the date 
June 16, 1812. 

He removed to South Weymouth in the year 1783, 
and settled on a spot at or near the corner of Pleasant 
and Union Streets. 

He is described as “a small man, with a dark com- 
plexion, hazel eyes, and a very strong hand to pull out 
teeth.” Dr. Torrey was the seventh of seven sons, and 
like all seventh sons, in those days, was supposed to 
have peculiar, not to say miraculous, powers in curing 
* king’s evil,” by the laying on of hands or “touch,” 
though in his latter days he entirely discontinued this 
kind of treatment. He was, however, particularly suc- 
cessful, as it is said, in this disease and also in “ throat- 
ail,” and had patients from Boston and other places, 
who boarded in his family to receive treatment. 

For more than thirty years he was the only physician 
in South Weymouth, where he acquired a fair business. 
He died Dec. 16, 1817, aged sixty-one years. He left 


seven children: —' 
I. James Goruam, born in Lebanon, Conn., Jan. 17, 1779, 
who married Susan White. 
II. Saran, born in Nantucket, Aug. 23, 1783, who married 
Elijah Bates. 


1Dr. James Torrey was the son of James and Sarah (Nash-Torrey, 
born in Ashford, Conn., after the removal of his father from Abington, 
Mass. He was the son of Deacon Micajah and Sarah Torrey, grand- 
son of Deacon Micajah and Susanna Torrey, and great-grandson of 
Captain William Torrey, who settled in Weymouth in 1640, and becam 
one of its most distinguished citizens. He was the celebrated ‘ clerk 
of the deputies’’ for many years. 

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194 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


III. Susan, born in Weymouth, Nov. 10, 1785, who married 
Amos Merritt. 
IV. Revzen (Rev.), born in Weymouth, April 3, 1789, who 
settled in Connecticut. 
V. Nancy, born in Weymouth, Sept. 10, 1790, who married 
Amos Merritt (his second wife). 
VI. Lucrpa, born in Weymouth, June 4, 1793, who married 
Edward Blanchard. 
VII. Lavinta, born in Weymouth, March 25, 1795, who married 
Reuben Burrell. 
VIII. A boy, not named and not recorded. 


Dr. THomAS VINSON' was successor to Dr. Torrey 
and for a time contemporary with him. But few par- 
ticulars in regard to him can be ascertained. He was 
born, June 8, 1756, and died probably about 1840. He 
lived in South Weymouth, on the spot now occupied by 
Mr. Edward Rosenfelds’ new house. He was at one 
time colonel in the Revolutionary army. He is said to 
have been a learned man and acquired a large practice, 
but eventually became dissipated. 


Dr. James LOvELL? was born Jan. 1, 1768. He 
lived in an ancient but, for his time, imposing house on 
Neck Street, North Weymouth, near the junction of this 


1 Col. Thomas Vinson, son of John aud Sarah (Colson- Vinson, was born 
in Weymouth, June 8, 1756, and died Jan. 12, 1841, at the age of eighty-five 
years. He was the descendant of an old and prominent family in the town 
which sprung from London and came here in the latter half of the sev- 
enteenth century. He wasamathematician of no mean ability, and made 
the calculations for almanacs for several years. He married, Jan. 27, 1782, 
Hannah, dau. of Sumueland Elizabeth (Shaw-Holbrook, born in Weymouth 
in 1760, and died Noy. 28, 1788, aged twenty-eight years and six months. 

Children: — 

I. WARREN, born in Weymouth, Sept. or Oct. 5, 1782. 
II. SusANNA, born in Weymouth, June 1, 1784. 

III. BETSEY, born in Weymouth, Dec. 25, 1785. 

IV. THomMAS WARREN, born in Weymouth, Nov. 28, 1788. 

2 Dr. James Lovell was son of General Solomon and Hannah (Pittey- 
Lovell, and a descendant of Robert Lovell, who came to Weymouth in 
1635, with Rev. Joseph Hull. He inherited his father’s homestead and 
one of the finest properties of that time in the town. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 195 


street with Green Street. He was born, lived and died 
in this house, and his remains were buried in the family 
tomb, which was demolished when the road was made 
to Pilgrim Wharf some years since, when they were 
removed to the old North Cemetery and finally placed 
there in the family tomb. He was the son of General 
Solomon Lovell, the commander of the land forces in 
the Penobscot expedition, whose original journal con- 
stitutes the first published document of the Weymouth 
Historical Society. He married, Nov. 8, 1798, Widow 
Winch, whose maiden name was Priscilla Ford. He 
entered Harvard College, but before completing the 
course of study left to go “down Hast” to attend to a 
vessel belonging to his father. He studied medicine 
with Dr. Thaxter, of Hingham. He did not enjoy its 
practice or pursue it to any great extent, as he was 
wealthy and was much engaged on his farm and in town 
business. He died April 8, 1820. He had no child. 


Dr. Noan Firretp was the son of Hbenezer and 
Mary (Sanborn-Fifield, and was born at Hast Kingston, 
N. H., July 22, 1783. He studied medicine under the 
direction of his uncle, Dr. William Sanborn, of Fal- 
mouth, Me., and afterwards pursued his studies under 
the care of Dr. Nathan McKingstry, a Scotch surgeon 
of Newburgh, Vt. He attended medical lectures at 
Boston, in 1804, The next year, 1805, he commenced 
the practice of medicine in Maine, but soon returned and 
settled in Weymouth, June 12,1806. He was welcomed 
cordially by the venerable Cotton Tufts, who took a 
great interest in him, and advised and befriended him in 
his youthful days. He was for sixty years a physician 
in this village of his adoption, and won for himself a 
high character for ability. 

Dr. Howe, his contemporary for many years, says of 
him: “As a citizen and a neighbor it is believed that 


196 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


he sustained a character above reproach. As a physi- 
cian he brought to the aid of his patients a sound and 
vigorous mind, well stored with professional knowledge 
and an aptness in the investigation of disease which 
rendered his opinions of great value to the sick and of 
great weight with the members of his profession.” He 
was a man of sound judgment, few words, and dignified 
in his bearing. He was successful in his profession 


pecuniarily, believing that the physician, like every other 


person who depends for his support upon his profes- 
sional or mechanical efforts, is worthy of a just and 
honest remuneration for his exertions, and that he 
should not be defrauded of them in the one case more 
than in the other. He was earnestly engaged in the 
temperance reform and labored for its success. 

He was admitted a fellow of the Massachusetts Medi- 
cal Society in 1807, and was for several years one of its 
councillors. In his latter days he relinquished entirely 
his practice and resided for a few years with his son in 
Dorchester. When quite advanced in life, he married 
Hannah Cranch Bond (date of publishment June 16, 
1820), and they were the parents of three children: — 

I. Gerorce Forpyce, born April, 1822; died Nov. 15, 1846. 


Il. Mary S., born March 27, 1824; died Aug. 17, 1845. 
TI. Wirziam C. B., born Aug. 27, 1828. 


He died Oct. 21, 1867, and was buried from the 
old church, where he used to attend services, in the 
family lot in the village cemetery, Weymouth, aged 
eighty-four years. His wife was born in Portland, Me., 
April 18, 1787, and died in Dorchester, Mass., March 8, 
1570, aged eighty-two years and ten months, and was 
buried by the side of her husband. 


Hon. Dr. AppLeton Howse, major-general Massa- 
chusetts Volunteer Militia, was the son of Rev. Nathan- 
tel and Olive Howe, of Hopkinton, Mass. He was born 


— — 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 197 


in that town, Nov. 26, 1792. He was fitted for college at 
Phillips Academy, Andover, and entered Harvard Col- 
lege in 1811, graduating therefrom in 1815. He stud- 
ied medicine at the Harvard Medical School, under the 
supervision of Dr. JohnC. Warren, receiving his diploma 
in 1819. He received a formal invitation from the 
citizens of South Weymouth, through a committee of 
twelve of the leading men in the place, to settle with 
them “in the practice of physic and surgery.” He 
came to Weymouth in September of 1819, and for 
forty-seven years had no associate and scarcely a com- 
petitor. For the last three years he was associated to 
some extent with Dr. Tower. In the fiftieth year of 
his practice: he withdrew from active medical work, but 
still occasionally went out in consultation. 

Dr. Howe was a man of great physical as well as 
mental power, and performed to the last an amount of 
labor that very few of the younger members of the 
profession were able to do. 

He had the happy faculty of taking things easily, 
which enabled him to rest when not actively engaged, 
though surrounded by exciting circumstances; yet he 
was always careful of the welfare of his patients, caring 
for them assiduously by night and by day. 

He held many distinguished positions in military life. 
He was a member, and for some time commander, of 
the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. He 
was chosen surgeon of the Second Regiment, First 
Brigade, Second Division, of the Massachusetts Mili- 
tia; also adjutant and colonel of the same. He was 
brigadier of the First Brigade, and afterwards major- 
general of First Division of Massachusetts Militia. 

He also received civic honors, and was senator from 
Norfolk County during the years 1841, 1842, 1843. 

He was a member of the school committee for many 
years, and for some time its chairman, and upon his 


198 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


resignation received a formal vote of thanks from the 
town. 

He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical 
Society, and at one time president of the Norfolk 
District Medical Society. He was an ardent sym- 
pathizer with the anti-slavery movement from its in- 
ception. When, in order to do honor to the memory 
of an officer of the army from Massachusetts, who fell 
in the Mexican war, he was requested to order the 
officers of the First Division of militia, of which he was 
then commander, to attend the funeral, he refused to 
comply, because he considered the object of that war to 
be the extension of slavery. In .consequence of this 
refusal, he received the severest reproaches and con- 
demnations of the pro-slavery party at the North, and 
the maledictions and reviling of the slave-holding 
powers at the South, sent to him in letters of the 
foulest and most scurrilous character, 

It may be interesting to know that in his early days 
he taught school in various places; among them, in the 
“Tron works district,” Braintree, and boarded at Colonel 
Minot Thayer’s; and through the influence of this gen- 
tleman he was introduced to the notice of the citizens 
of South Weymouth. 

He married for his first wife, shortly after coming to 
town, Dec. 12, 1821, Harriet, daughter of Hliphalet and 
Anna Loud, who was born in Weymouth, Feb. 8, 1795, 
and died Noy. 16, 1848, in her fifty-fourth year, without 
issue. After her death he married liza, daughter of 
Joseph and Thankful (Bates-Loud, of the North vil- 
lage, born May 9, 1812, who, with one daughter, still 
survives. The issue of this marriage was one daughter 
and one son, viz.: — 


I. Hartie, born Dec. 18, 1852. 
II. Aprreton L., born Feb. 20, 1854; died Nov. 23, 1856. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 199 


He died in his own home, Columbia Street, South 
Weymouth, Oct. 10, 1870, and was buried in the family 
lot in the Highland Cemetery. 


Dr. Jacos RicHarps was the son of Jacob and 
Lydia (Colson-Richards. He was born in Weymouth, 
June 24, 1795. He obtained his early education in the 
public schools of Weymouth, fitted for college and 
entered Brown University in 1820, receiving his degree, 
A. B., in 1824. 

During the winter months, while in college and even 
after he graduated, he taught school to gain his support. 
He studied medicine under the direction of Dr. J. C. 
Warren, of Boston, and, after receiving his diploma, set- 
tled in Hanover, Mass., about 1833. He was admitted 
a fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1840. 

He removed to Weymouth in 1856, where he re- 
mained for one year, residing in the house now occu- 
pied by F. W. Lewis, Esq. He then removed to Hast 
Braintree, where he lived till his death. 

He married, 1834, Hlizabeth Gardner Wolcott, daugh- 
ter of Rev. Calvin Wolcott, rector of St. Andrew’s 
Episcopal Church, Hanover, Mass. Their children were 
as follows: — 

I. Aveustus J., born Sept. 20, 1835. 

II. Georece C., born Jan. 18, 1838. 

Ill. Saran Ann, born Feb. 5, 1840. 

IV. Susannau Lincoxn, born Sept. 20, 1843. 

V. Mary Garpner, born April 1, 1846. 

He died Jan. 2, 1861, and lies buried in the Ashland 


Cemetery. 


Dr. Davip Torrey was the son of Deacon Samuel 
and Dolly (Blanchard- Torrey, and brother of Noah 
Torrey, Esq., of South Weymouth. He was born June 
29, 1793. He obtained his preparatory education in 
the Weymouth schools, and graduated from Brown 


200 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


University in 1819. In 1823 he married Maria Still- 
man Balsh, of Boston. He practised for a time in 
Holbrook, and in Hanoyer, and removed to South 
Weymouth in 1840, remaining there until 1855, when 
he removed to Joliet, Il. Whilein Weymouth he lived 
on Union Street, in a house belonging to the estate of 
Mr. Orren Shaw. He died in Joliet, Aug. 14, 1870. 
Their children are: — 
I. Mary J., born Oct 23, 1825. 
II. Samuet S., born June 14, 1827; died July 2, 1882. 
Tif. Cuartorre I., born Feb. 23, 1829. 


IV. Davip F., born Feb. 24, 1831; died Aug. 15, 1853. 
V. Epwarp M., born Nov. 15, 1855. 


Dr. Trmotuy GORDON was not very dissimilar in his 
personal characteristics, mental and physical, from his 
contemporaries, Drs. Howe and Fifield. A man of 
strong convictions, weighing carefully those matters 
which demanded his consideration, and when his opin- 
ion was once formed, so tenacious and uncompromising 
that no earthly power could turn him from the course 
which he believed to be right. He was born at New- 
bury, Mass., March 10, 1795. It is believed he was 
prepared for college at Exeter, N. H., and he received 
his degree, A. M., from Amherst in 1868. He obtained 
his M. D. from Bowdoin in 1825. He came to Wey- 
mouth in the same year, and continued here in practice 
for twelve years, residing at North Weymouth, in the 
house now occupied by Henry A. Nash, Esq. He then 
removed to Plymouth, where he remained till his death, 
Nov. 5, 1877. 

He married, May 12, 1825, Jane Binney Jones, of 
Hingham, daughter of Solomon Jones, and had two 
children: — 

I. Soromon J., born at Weymouth, Sept. 24, 1826. 


II. Timorny, born at Weymouth, April 16, 1836; died April 19, 
1836. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 201 


Dr. JosePpH Dorr came to Weymouth in 1836. He 
remained here but a very short time. He did not own 
real estate here, but boarded with Captain Hervey 
Cushing, North Weymouth. He married the widow of 
Mr. Robert Bicknell, sold out his practice to Dr. 
Learned and removed to Philadelphia, Pa., where he 
died some years since. His widow survives him, and is 
a resident of that city. They had no children. 


Dr. Esenezer TureELL LEARNED succeeded Dr. 
Dorr. He was born in Gardner, Mass., July 19, 1812. 
He had the usual common-school education, and pursued. 
his more advanced studies under private instruction. 
He received his medical education partly in the Medical 
Department of Dartmouth College and partly in the 
Harvard Medical School. He received his M. D. in 
1836, and came to Weymouth the same year. He pur- 
sued his profession in the North village for ten years, 
and then, in 1846, removed to Fall River, where he still 
resides, broken down in health and entirely unable to 
attend to professional duties. For some years he was 
one of the councillors of the Massachusetts Medical 
Society, and for two years president of the Bristol 
South District Society. He married Mary Matilda 
White, of Ashburnham, Mass., May 14, 1835. Their 
children are: — 


I. Saran M., born Sept. 19, 1836. 
II. Susan T., born Nov. 4, 1839. 
III. Mary W., born Oct. 17, 1841. 
IV. Lypra K., born March 19, 1845. 
V. Anna M., born Sept. 18, 1848. 
VI. Heten M., born June 11, 1852. 
Vil. Josreruine H. D., born July 13, 1856. 
VIII. Fanny H., born Nov. 6, 1858. 
IX. Wituiam T.,-born March 25, 1861. 


The family circle is still unbroken (1884). 


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Dr. Greorct Forpyce Firteip, son of Dr. Noah 
and Hannah Fifield, was born in Weymouth, April 18, 
1822. He pursued his academic studies in the town, and 
received his degree, A. B., from Harvard College in 
1841. He then commenced the study of medicine, and 
in due time entered upon its practice with his father. 
After giving promise of a useful and successful career 
he died, Nov. 15, 1846, of lumbar abscess, and is buried 
in the family lot in the village cemetery. 


Dr. CHARLES COFFRAN was born in Thomaston, Me., 
about the year 1817. He studied medicine with Dr. 
Jackson, of Boston, and held a degree from the Harvard 
Medical School. He came to Weymouth in 1845, and 
after practising here about five years, removed in May, 
1850. He resided in the South village. Two children, 
a boy and a girl, were born to him here. On leaving 
the place he went to his native town, and, after living 
there for a time, removed to Riverside, Cal., where he 
died in 1879. 


Dr. Dante. LEwis GIBBENS was born in Boston, 
Jan. 29, 1824. He studied in the Boston schools, and 
was graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 
1847. He practised for a short time in Wrentham, and 
came to Weymouth in 1847, locating at the North Vil- 
lage. He joined the Massachusetts Medical Society, 
the succeeding year. He remained in Weymouth five 
years, and then removed to New Orleans, where he 
died Dec. 3, 1865. He married Hliza P. Webb, daughter 
of Christopher, Esq., and Susan ( White- Webb, of this 
town, in 1847. 

mie children are: — 

I. Aticr, born Feb. 6, 1849. 


II. Mary, born June 10, 1851. 
III. Marearet, born Feb. 15, 1858. 


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Dr. JostAnH BALL was born at Milford, Mass., in 
1828. He pursued his academic course at Holliston 
Academy, and graduated in Boston at the Harvard 
Medical School. He married, in 1846, Sarah Taylor, 
of Mattapoisett, Mass. He came to Weymouth in 1847, 
and commenced the practice of medicine, and also had 
charge of the drug store, more recently occupied by 
Messrs. White & Ambler. After practising here for 
three years, he died in 1850, leaving a widow. They 
had one child, who died in infancy. 


Dr. IRA H. ‘Perry was born March 23, 1819, in 
Natick, Mass. He graduated at Wesleyan University, 
Middletown, Conn., in 1842; studied medicine in Buck- 
land, Mass., and received his degree of M. D.. from 
Berkshire Medical College, Pittsfield, Mass., in 1845. 
From 1845 to 1856 he practised medicine in West Med- 
way and Weymouth, Mass. In 1857 and 1858 he, with 
four others, founded the town of Zumbrota, Minn. In 
1862 and 1863 he was assistant surgeon in United States 
army, in Virginia and Washington; from 1863 to 1866, 
was assistant surgeon Ninth Regiment, United States 
colored troops; in 1866 and 1867 was surgeon, with rank 
of brevet major, United States Volunteers. 

He married, April 26, 1849, Joanna Bullard, of 
Wayland, Mass. 

His children are: — 


I. Martian E., born March 31, 1850. 
Il. Berrie, born April 3, 1852; died in August, 1852. 
Ill. Heven A., born Oct. 14, 1853. 
IV. Sexi E., born Sept. 19, 1855. 
V. Orrin J., born Feb. 14, 1858. 
VI. Muinniz A., born May 20, 1860. 


His present address is Galeta, Santa Barbara County, 
California. 


204 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


Dr. Hervey BE. Weston was born in Weymouth, 
Mass., June 21,1817. He graduated at Yale College in 
1839. He afterwards studied medicine in Boston, and 
received his diploma from the Harvard Medical School. 
Later he pursued his medical studies in Paris, returning 
to Weymouth in 1847. He practised medicine there for 
several years, and afterwards, for a short time, in Boston. 

In 1859 he joined members of his family, then resi- 
dent in Italy, returning in 1861. He had at this time 
given up practice. A few years later there came a 
decided failure of health, which resulted, finally, in an 
obscure spinal malady. He was for some years a con- 
firmed and, for a part of the time, a helpless invalid, but 
he retained his vigorous intellect to the last, and his 
wonderful patience, courage and resignation never gave 
way for a moment. 

Those who have known him as a physician will never 
forget his personal devotion, thoughtfulness and sym- 
pathy, nor will the suffering poor, to whom he was 
some times nurse as well as doctor, ever cease to remem- 
ber his kindness. 

He was a good classical scholar, and very fond of 
archzological and numismatic researches, and to these, 
when in Italy, he devoted considerable time. He died 
unmarried, July 21, 1882. 


Dr. Eroram Lewis WARREN was located for some 
years at Weymouth. He was born in Lunenburg, 
Mass., in 1823. He received his preparatory training 
at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and was gradu- 
ated from the Berkshire Medical College in 1849, receiv- 
ing his degree, M. D. 

He came to Weymouth the succeeding year, and at 
that time was admitted to the Massachusetts Medical 
Society. ' 

In October, 1861, he entered the army as surgeon in the 


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Twenty-second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, 
and was honorably discharged June 10, 1862. He re- 
enlisted Dec. 10, 1862, in the Fifth Rhode Island Vol- 
unteers, from which he was discharged for physical 
disability, Dec. 7, 1863. He occupied, also, the posi- 
tion of inspector in the Sanitary Commission, with the 
rank of major. He was appointed medical examiner in 
1876. After leaving the army he returned to Wey- 
mouth, where he practised his profession for a few 
years and purchased the “ Weymouth Drug Store,” 
which he held under his control for a time. He then 
removed to Medford, Mass., which is his present 
address. 

While in Weymouth he married the widow of Dr. 
Josiah Ball, by whom he had one child, a daughter: — 


I. Awna A., born Jan. 11, 1870. 


Dr. Joun Henry GILBERT was a native of Atkin- 
son, N. H. He was born Noy. 11, 1826. His aca- 
demic education was received at Atkinson Academy, 
his medical education at the Harvard Medical School, 
where he was graduated, receiving his M. D. in 18583. 
In the same year he came to Hast Weymouth, where he 
remained for three years. He then removed to Hunt- 
ington, Mass., stopped there for about a year and a half, 
and then returned to East Weymouth in 1857, where 
he continued his medical practice for five years. He 
then went to Quincy, Mass., where he is now settled 
(1884). He was admitted a fellow of the Massachu- 
setts Medical Society in 1854. 

He married Jane Copeland, of Huntington, Mass., 
Nov. 27, 1856, and they have one child: — 


I. Joun H., born Sept. 3, 1870. 


Dr. Grorck Wyman Fay was born in Grafton, 
Mass., Feb. 9, 1834. His preparatory education was 


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obtained at Leicester Academy, and he was graduated 
from the Harvard Medical School in 1863. He came 
to Hast Weymouth in 1857, and has continued in prac- 
tice there ever since. He was admitted to the Massa- 
chusetts Medical Society in 1866, and was one of its 
councillors for some years. He was for two years 
president of the Union Medical and Surgical Asso- 
ciation. He married, March 21, 1857, Jane Louse 
Mowry, of Worcester, Mass. 

Their children are: — 

I. Frank G., born Feb. 1, 1859. 

II. Gerorce W., born Jan. 6, 1861. 

III. Friorence J., born June 30, 1864. 

IV. Brancue M., born Dec. 16, 1865; deceased. 


V. E. Loursz, born June 10, 1870. 
VI. M. Fanny, born Oct 12, 1871. 


Dr. Witittam CrancH Bonp FIFIELD was the 
younger son of Dr. Noah Fifield. He was born in 
Weymouth, Aug. 27, 1828. His preliminary academic 
education was obtained in the town schools and in 
Exeter, N. H., Academy. He graduated from the 
Harvard Medical School in 1848; also from the Royal 
College of Surgeons, England. He was house officer 
in London Hospital, and licentiate of the Royal Oph- 
thalmic Hospital, and member of the American Medical 
Society, Paris. He is member of the Obstetric Society, 
and honorary member of the Improvement Society, 
Boston, and surgeon on the staff of Boston City Hos- 
pital. He was admitted a fellow of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society in 1858, and was at one time president 
of the Norfolk District Medical Society. After grad- 
uation he practised for a time with his father, but 
removed to Dorchester, Oct. 21, 1861, where he still 
resides. 

He married Hmily A. Porter, daughter of Thomas B. 
and Hinily (Vining-Porter, May 13, 1856. 


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Their children are: — 


I. Mary S., born March 29, 1857. 
II. Gerorce F., born July 1, 1859 ; died September, 1860. 
iI. Cuarves B., born Sept. 5, 1861; died March 4, 1877. 


Dr. Lemuret FULuer was the son of Dr. Lemuel 
Fuller, of Attleborough, Mass., where he practised 
many years. He was born in Marlborough, Mass., 
April 2, 1812, but in infancy his parents removed with 
him to. Attleborough. 

He had the ordinary advantages of an English edu- 
cation, and was graduated in medicine, receiving his 
degree, M. D., from the Vermont Medical College. 

At Concord, Mass., June 6, 1844, he married Cath- 
erine Pallissewr Barrett. 

He practised for a time at Milton, Mass., and re- 
moved to North Weymouth, on receiving a call from 
a committee of the citizens of the village, Jan. 9, 1853. 
He remained in this village for ten years, when sick- 
ness necessitated his temporary absence, and he died in 
Harvard, Mass., Nov. 8, 1864. 

He had no children. 


Dr. CHARLES CARROLL TOWER was contemporary 
with Dr. Howe for a time, and afterwards his successor. 
He had the advantages of a preparatory course of study 
ander private instruction, and entered Harvard College 
in 1852. He received his degree of A. B. from that 
institution in 1856, and immediately commenced the 
study of medicine in the Harvard Medical School, from 
which he received his degree of M. D. in 1859. He 
vame the same year to South Weymouth, and entered 
upon the practice of his profession, and, with the excep- 
tion of his service in the army, has been there ever 
since. From September, 1862, till January, 1863, he 
served as assistant surgeon, U.S. A., on duty at Emory 


208 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


Hospital, in the vicinity of Washington, D. C.; after 
which he resumed the duties of his profession in South 
Weymouth. 

He has filled the position of medical examiner for 
some years. 

He married, Nov. 29, 1860, Clarissa Lothrop Pratt, 
of Cohasset. They have four children: — 

I. Carrie A., born July 18, 1862. 

II. Cwartottre B., born Nov. 22, 1863. 


III. Heren M., born Aug. 8, 1868. 
IV. Rovors N., born Nov. 15, 1873. 


Dr. JoserH Cor.LIev was a practising physician in 
South Weymouth from about 1856 to 1862. He came 
to Weymouth from Millbury, Mass., and after leaving 
town returned there, where he died a few years since. 

He had two children: — 


I. JosEepnH. 
II. Mary. 


Dr. Francis Friryt Forsatta was born May 8, 
1824, in Deering, N. H. He received his academic 
education in the schools of his native town, and in the 
academies of Hancock and Francestown, N. H. He 
entered Dartmouth College in 1843, and received his 
degree of A. B. from that institution in 1847. 

After teaching for a time in the Alstead High School 
and Francestown Academy, he entered on the study of 
medicine, and received his degree of M. D. from the 
Vermont University in 1852. He came to Weymouth 
in 1861, and still continues in practice there. 

He was admitted to the Massachusetts Medical Society 
in 1856, and for some years was one of its councillors. 
For two years he was president of the Union Medical 
and Surgical Association. He married Sarah Jane 
Dickerman, of Providence, R. I, Nov. 25, 1851. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 209 


Their children are: — 


I. Frank L., born Feb. 13, 1854. 
Il. Watrer G., born Oct. 20, 1865. 
Ill. Eva M., born Sept. 13, 1869; died Oct. 26, 1877. 


Dr. OttveR Perry Pirer was born in Northum- 
berland County, Pa., April 18, 1848. He received his 
degree, A. B., from Princeton College in 1868, and 
that of M. D. from Jefferson College, Philadelphia, Pa., 
March 9, 1872. He practised one year at Schuylkill 
Haven, Pa., and came to North Weymouth, March 1, 
1873. After remaining there about three years, he 
returned to Schuylkill Haven in September, 1876, and 
is now in practice there. 

He has twice been appointed physician-in-chief to 
the Schuylkill County Hospital, and is a member of 
the Schuylkill County Medical Association and of the 
Pennsylvania State Medical Society. He married Anna 
Eliza Eshleman, and they have one child: — 


I. Exeanor G., born Oct. 29, 1878. 


Dr. Moses REUBEN GREELY was born Aug. 13, 
1826, in Hudson, N. H. His academic education was 
acquired at the schools of Nashua, New London, 
Pembroke, and Hancock, N. H., where he fitted for 
college. 

His medical education was obtained from the Harvard 
Medical School, from which he graduated in March, 
1850. He was admitted to the Massachusetts Medical 
Society in 1850. In September, 1862, he was commis- 
sioned assistant surgeon in the Third Regiment Minne- 
sota Volunteer Infantry; was on detached service in 
charge of hospitals at Helena and Little Rock, and was 
acting surgeon on General Shaler’s staff during the last 
six months of the late war. He came to South Wey- 

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210 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


mouth, June 17, 1869, and still continues in practice 
there. Hemarried Sarah Robie Peirce, at East Boston, 
Mass., June 17, 1852. 
Their children are: — 
I. Cuartes R., born Oct. 23, 1853. 
II. Mary L., born Sept. 11, 1855. 


II. Witttam H., born Nov. 27, 1858. 
IV. Liewertyn, born Dee. 11, 1861. 


Dr. GRANVILLE WILSON TINKHAM was a native of 
North Bridgewater, Mass., and was born May 21, 1848. 
He received his academic education in the town schools, 
and was graduated from the Harvard Medical School, 
with degree of M. D., March 8, 1871. He came to 
Weymouth in June of the same year, and has practised 
there ever since. He was admitted a member of the 
Massachusetts Medical Society in 1872. He married, 
Oct. 20, 1874, Augusta Louise Trask, of Weymouth. 

Their children are: — 


I. Mauve C., born Oct. 12, 1876. 
II. Otniver G., born June 22, 1879. 


Dr. Roscor EvitswortH Brown was a native of 
Lynn, Mass., where he was born May 18, 1851. He 
obtained his preparatory education in Bridgton High 
School and Bridgton Academy, Bridgton, Me. He 
spent a year in the Portland Medical School and the 
Maine General Hospital, and received his M. D. from the 
Medical School of Bowdoin College in July, 1876. He 
came to North Weymouth in September of the same 
year, and has since removed to Hast Weymouth, where 
he still practises. He joined the Massachusetts Medical 
Society in 1879. He married, Feb. 2, 1877, Mary LH. 
Wilson, of Brunswick, Me. They had one child: — 


I. Roscoe B., born Sept. 11, 1882; died Feb. 9, 1884. 


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Dr. JoHn CuisHoLtm FRASER was born in Antigo- 
nish, N. S., Aug. 2, 1853, and received his A. B., from 
St. Francis Xavier College of that place. He acquired 
his medical education at Harvard and at Bellevue Hos- 
pital Medical College, where he received his M. D., March 
1, 1876, and came to Hast Weymouth in the same year. 
He was admitted to the Massachusetts Medical Society 
in 1880, and is at the present time the president of the 
Union Medical and Surgical Association. He mar- 
ried, July 20, 1880, Mary Ann Boyle, of Hast Wey- 
mouth. 

Their children are: — 


I. Mary G., born July 18, 1881. 
II. Arcuy M., born May 22, 1883. 


Dr. WiLL1AM ABRAM DRAKE was a native of Con- 
cord, N. H. He was born Oct. 22,1849. His aca- 
demic education was obtained in Augusta, Me., at Cony 
Academy. He was graduated from the Medical De- 
partment of Bowdoin College in 1879, after having had 
some clinical hospital experience and served as hospital 
steward. He came to North Weymouth, March 15, 
1880, and continues there at the present time. He was 
admitted to the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1883. 
He married, Feb. 17, 1880, Rose Horn, of Norway, Me. 
They have no children. 


ECLECTIC PHYSICIAN. 


Dr. JosePpH Porter Hopa@non was a native of 
Kensington, N. H., where he was born June 9, 1825. 
He obtained a common-school education, and graduated 
from the Eclectic Medical School, Worcester, Mass. 
He came to Weymouth in 1852, and remained seven 
years. 


218 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


HOMCOPATHIC PHYSICIANS. 


Dr. Norton Quixcy Trrretu succeeded Dr. Gib- 
bens at North Weymouth. He occupied a house on 
Commercial Street, on King Oak Hill, commanding a 
magnificent view of Boston Harbor and the surround- 
ing country. His academic education was obtained at 
Warren Academy, Wilbraham, Woburn, Mass., and Gil- 
manton, N. H. As to medical education he was a grad- 
uate of no college; he “ obtained it in the regular pro- 
cess of study.” He began practice in Sharon, Mass., 
but removed to this town in January, 1852, and for many 
years his practice was large and lucrative. During the 
latter part of his life he practised homceopathy. His 
medical life covered a period of thirty years. He mar- 
ried Susan Jane French, of Loudon, N. H., May 12, 
1842. 

Their children are as follows, viz.: — 

I. Freperic N., born June 30, 1843. 

II. Cuarves Q., born Dec. 10, 1844. 

Ill. Naruan T., born March 22, 1847. 

IV. Crara J., born July 23, 1849; died April 13, 1876. 


V. Norton, born March 2, 1855. 
VI. Gerorce E., born Aug. 4, 1856. 


He was born Nov. 20, 1817; and died Oct. 19, 1882, 
at his‘home in Hast Weymouth, having removed to this 
village some years previously. 


Dr. Witui1Am Fates HATHAWAY was born Oct. 
4, 1843, at Northbridge, Mass. He received a high- 
school preparatory education, and graduated in medicine 
from the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, 
Pa., March 4, 1869. He was in the battles around and 
at the siege of Vicksburg, Miss. He was appointed 
hospital steward of the Forty-second Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry. He came to Weymouth in 1871, and still 





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practises here. He married Elizabeth Stansbury, of 
Philadelphia, Pa., March 17, 1869. 
Their children are: — 
I. Frorencet, born Dec. 19, 1869. 
Il. Harry S., born July 6, 1872. 


III. Marre L., born Dec. 12,1874; died June 13, 1881. 
IV. Wiuuiam Fatss; born Jan. 19, 1878. 


Dr. Jupson L. Becxk was born in St. John, N. B., 
in 1836. He graduated from the Boston University, 
and came to Hast Weymouth in 1879. He married 
Miss H. S. Malcom, of Halifax, N.S. 

They have two children: — 

I. Frep, born April 25, 1872. 

II. Berrua M., born May 2, 1874. 


FEMALE PHYSICIANS. 


Mrs. Dr. Tuok, a resident of South Weymouth, has, 
for several years, been practising medicine at her own 
residence and at her office in Boston. She is the widow 
of the late Lorenzo Tuck of the South village, and for- 
merly of North Bridgewater. She has one son. 


Mrs. Dr. Tirzan E. Goopwin is the wife of Mr. 
John Goodwin, of Weymouth, and daughter of Mr. 
Royal Norton, of the same village. She is a graduate 
of Boston University, and has for several years been 
practising in this and other places. She has two 
children. 


Messrs. Forrest, FitzGeraup, Guptit, ANDREWS, 
and possibly some others have practised medicine for a 
very short time in some parts of the town, but scarcely 
long enough for them to acquire real estate or to be 
considered permanent residents. 


214 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


CHAPTER XII. 


Rebellion Record — Twelfth Regiment — Thirty-fifth Regiment —Forty- 
second Regiment — Fourth Heavy Artillery — Soldiers’ Record. 


REBELLION ReEcorp, 1861-5.— The followmg rec- 
ord of soldiers sent by the town of Weymouth, Mass., 
into the Union service during the great Rebellion of 
1861-5, with the exception of a few errors corrected 
by the compiler, is taken chiefly from the town archives, 
kept in accordance with acts of the Massachusetts 
Legislature, approved March 7 and April 29, 1863, and is 
believed to be substantially correct. There are, doubt- 
less, errors and omissions, as it is almost necessary 
there must be in such compilations, judging from the 
universal experience of the past. Names are extremely 
liable to error, since there are so many ways of spelling 
the same. Dates also are sources of difficulty, as all 
know who have ever attempted to verify them. Defec- 
tive memories are exceedingly fruitful in mistakes in 
matters that are not made the subject of record at the 
time of their occurrence. 

Much care and labor have been bestowed upon this 
list, yet it claims to be at best but a good basis upon 
which to rest a full and thorough history of Wey- 
mouth during the Rebellion, and is perhaps sufficiently 
accurate for ordinary purposes. 

A great many of the men here enumerated served in 
other organizations during the war than that to which 
they are credited; to name them all would extend the 
work too much for the general purpose; that here given 





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is usually the one in which the first enlistment was made. 
The rank named is the highest held during the term of 
service, without regard to the organization in which it 
was held. When no State is named, Massachusetts is 
understood, and the alphabetical arrangement has been 
used to facilitate reference. ‘The necessary abbrevia- 
tions will be readily understood. ‘The name being first 
given, then the rank, afterwards the branch of service, 
and last, casualties where any occurred. 

Weymouth having sent into the war four full com- 
panies in as many different regiments, and all of them 
bearing an honorable record, a brief sketch of the oper- 
ations of these organizations cannot fail to be of interest 
in a work of this character; and much care has been 
taken that the following brief histories shall cover in 
outline, and correctly, their several careers as they 
passed through their terms of service. 

Two of the regiments, the Twelfth and the Thirty- 
fifth, were pre-eminently fighting regiments, known 
and acknowledged as such through the length and 
breadth of the land. The remaining two, the Forty- 
second and the Fourth Heavy Artillery, although not 
so favored in that respect, were noted for their drill 
and discipline, and for their prompt and faithful per- 
formance of every duty they were called upon to do; 
and there can be no question that, had the opportunity 
offered, they would have shown as good a record in 
the battle-field as their more celebrated comrades. 

The materials for these sketches have been drawn 
from official records or other authentic sources of in- 
formation, and may be relied upon to give a faithful 
account in brief of the varied services in which they 
were engaged from the time of their “ muster in” until 
they were honorably discharged from the service of the 
United States. 


216 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


TWELTH REGIMENT MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS. 


The first movement looking to the enlistment of men 
for companies, which were afterwards organized as the 
Twelfth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, was 
made under a call from Fletcher Webster, son of 
Daniel Webster, bearing date of 20th of April, 1861, 
soon after the attack upon Sumter and the call of 
President Lincoln for volunteers. This was on Satur- 
day, and a meeting was held on the next day, Sunday, 
in State Street, Boston. Enlistments were begun on 
Monday, the 22d, and so rapidly did the work progress, 
that by the 7th of May the regiment was organized with 
its full complement of officers, and also furnished with 
arms and uniforms, and named the Webster Regiment, 
in honor of him who had done so much to bring it into 
being. | 

The officers were, Fletcher Webster, colonel; T. M. 
Bryan, Jr., lieutenant-colonel; and Elisha M. Burbank, 
major. The first five companies were recruited in Bos- 
ton, and commenced drilling in Faneuil Hall, Clinton 
Street, and Summer Street; Company F was gathered in 
North Bridgewater; Company G, in Abington; Com- 
pany H, in Weymouth; Company I, in Stoughton; and 
Company K, in Gloucester; and the regiment removed 
during the first week in May to Fort Warren, Boston 
Harbor, where it was actively engaged in perfecting its 
organization and drill during the next few weeks. 

The regiment was accepted June 14, and on the 
26th, eight hundred and fifty men were mustered into 
the service of the United States, and the remainder 
of them on the 11th of July. From some unknown 
cause the movement of the regiment was delayed from 
time to time, and it did not take its departure for the seat 
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reached Baltimore, via Harrisburg, at noon the 26th, 
and started immediately towards Harper’s Ferry, arriv- 
ing at Sandy Hook, Md., on the morning of the 27th, 
where it was assigned to Abercrombie’s brigade, Banks’s 
division, and commenced active duty, and where it soon 
obtained the reputation of being the best drilled regi- 
ment in the brigade. 

During a whole year its strength was spent in the 
irksome duties of the camp, and in marches and coun- 
termarches through Maryland and Virginia, between 
Frederick, Winchester, and Fredericksburg, with hardly 
the face of an enemy in sight. Its ill luck at com- 
mencement seemed to follow it, and it had no oppor- 
tunity to test its courage, skill, and endurance in battle. 
Its reputation as a fighting regiment was yet to be 
established, and a lurking suspicion begun to be felt 
that it was not seeking that service. But its severe 
schooling was not without result, as was fully shown 
when the test was applied. 

On the 9th and 10th of August it came under fire 
for the first time in any important engagement, and its 
losses in the battle of Cedar Mountain were one killed, 
eight wounded, and two missing, and from this time 
forward it bore not even suspicion of reproach. Its 
record was unsurpassed. Its next fight occurred on 
the 23d at Thoroughfare Gap; and on the 80th, at 
Groveton, a severe battle was fought, in which the regi- 
ment lost fifteen killed, sixty wounded, and sixty-three 
missing, and among the killed was its lamented colonel. 

From here the regiment took up its line of march for 
Washington, which it reached very soon after the disas- 
trous defeat of General Pope in the second battle of 
Bull Run, and immediately started under McClellan in 
search of Lee, who was encountered on the 14th to the 
17th at South Mountain and Antietam. In these bloody 
and obstinate engagements the regiment went into. 


218 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


action with three hundred and forty men, and came out 
with only thirty-two, having lost in killed seventy, 
wounded one hundred and eighty-three, and _ thirty 
missing. 

On the 21st of September, Captain Bates, having been 
promoted first as major in the Thirty-third Regiment, 
then as colonel, took command of his old regiment, 
where he was gladly welcomed. They crossed the 
Potomac on the 30th of October, and passed down 
into Virginia, where, on the 13th of December, they 
fought their next hard fight in the battle of Fredericks- 
burg; going into action with two hundred and fifty- 
eight men, they sustained a loss of fourteen killed, 
eighty-eight wounded, and three missing. Taking up 
their winter quarters at Belle Plain, they remained in 
camp until the latter part of April, 1863. 

The regiment was in the battle of Chancellorsville 
under Hooker, but met with inconsiderable loss. Under 
Meade, the regiment followed Lee into Pennsylvania 
and was in the hard fight at Gettysburg, from Ist to 
3d of July, where it fully sustained its reputation for 
bravery and endurance, and came out of the battle with 
a loss of nine killed, forty-one wounded, and sixty-one 
missing, and returned back to Virginia on the 18th 
of July. 

On the 15th of August, Colonel Bates, who had been 
to Massachusetts to recruit for the regiment, returned 
with one hundred and seventy-six men, mostly drafted, 
who proved of not much service. During the remain- 
der of the fall the time was spent in marches over 
Eastern Virginia, and the regiment took up its winter 
quarters at Culpepper, where it remained until May, 
1864 In March, Grant took command of the army, 
and the regiment was with him in the fights at the 
Wilderness, Todd’s Tavern, and Spottsylvania, 5th, 7th, 
and 8th of May, where its losses were nineteen killed, 





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sixty-three wounded; and on the 10th and 11th, at 
Laurel Hill, its losses were fifteen killed and thirty-two 
wounded. May 23 and 30, on the North Anna and 
Pamunky, its losses were five killed and twenty 
wounded. In the fifty days, from May 5 to June 25, 
the regiment had reported forty-six killed, one hundred 
and twenty-three wounded, three missing, and thirteen 
prisoners. 

Upon the latter date, June 25, the service of the 
regiment came virtually to an ena The re-enlisted 
men and conscripts were turned over to the Thirty- 
ninth Massachusetts, and the regiment, consisting of 
eighty-five men, turned their faces homeward, marching 
for City Point, thence to New York, arriving in Boston, 
July 1, 1864, with one hundred and seventy men, half 
of whom had been absent on detached duty or in hos- 
pital, where a glorious welcome awaited ea and they 
were petered | out on the 8th. 

The service of the regiment tells its own story. 
There is no need of panegyric; its work is its sufficient 
eulogist. No braver went into battle, none more trusty, 
and none came home with a better reputation. 

Company H from Weymouth was in all its service, 
and its losses were its sufficient witness that it bore its 
full share of the labor, hardship and fighting. 


Original number of men and officers. - : - : 1040 
Volunteers : : : - : : : : 100 
Conscripts : - : ; : : 3 . ; 395 

In all : - - 3 : ‘ A : 1535 
Killed : : : : : : : : - : 162 
Wounded . : - . - : : . . . 505 
Missing . . : ‘ : * . . = 183 

In all . - : - A A : : 850 


Company H lost, killed, wounded, missing, and died, 
fifty-three. 


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THIRTY-FIFTH MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS. 


The disastrous issue of the Peninsular campaign in 
the summer of 1862 furnished ample evidence that the 
Rebellion was not only not crushed, but that before such 
a result could be accomplished the Union must put 
forth its best endeavor. Accordingly President Lin- 
coln issued a further call, July 1, for an additional three 
hundred thousand men for three years’ service, and on 
the following day, Governor Andrew proclaimed it to 
the State. 

It was under this call that the Thirty-fifth Regiment 
was organized, commencing at once in Boston, where 
several companies were started; the towns of New- 
buryport, Chelsea, Haverhill, Weymouth, and Roxbury 
furnishing each a company, while the remainder of the 
companies were made up from other towns in the 
vicinity. 

The camp was formed at Lynnfield, Essex County, 
and named “Camp Stanton,” in honor of the Secretary 
of War, and men in companies and squads begun to 
flock in and the work of organization commenced in 
earnest. Company H, recruited in Weymouth, and 
commanded by Captain Benjamin F. Pratt, with 
Geo. P. Lyon and Oliver Burrell as lieutenants, was 
soon upon the ground, and, in a sense, ready for work. 

The regiment was mustered into the United States 
service in detachments in August and September, and 
started for Washington on Friday, Aug. 22, under the 
following officers: Hdward A. Wild, colonel; Sum- 
ner Carruth, major; and Nathaniel Wales, adjutant. 
They reached their destination in two days, and were 
at once assigned to the command of Brigadier-General 
Casey, and on the 25th transferred to General Whip- 
ple, and by him placed in Van Volkenburg’s brigade, 





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where they immediately began camp life beyond Arling- 
ton Heights, in Virginia. 

After the defeat of General Pope, and the consequent 
demoralization of his army, General McClellan was 
placed in command, and upon him devolved its re- 
organization, which he accomplished in an incredibly 
short time, and was ready to take the field in search of 
Lee within a very few days. The Thirty-fifth Regi- 
ment having been transferred to the command of 
General Burnside, constituting a part of Reno’s bri- 
gade (the Second) in Sturgis’s division (the Second) of 
the Ninth Army Corps, commenced its march on the 
evening of 6th of September. 

It was not, however, until Sunday, the 14th, that the 
regiment took part in its first battle, —that of South 
Mountain,— in which its part was an important and 
honorable one. This was followed immediately by 
the world-renowned Antietam fight, in which it was 
indeed baptized in blood, losing, in the two engage- 
ments, seventy-eight killed, and about one hundred 
and seventy-five wounded, so that its roll call upon 
the 18th showed less than three hundred men fit for 
duty; but it established its reputation as a fighting 
regiment, as the result of the Maryland campaign, — 
an honorable record which it ever after maintained. 

On the 27th of October the regiment crossed the 
Potomac into Virginia and began its sécond campaign 
upon the sacred soil of that unfortunate State, and its 
second battle of importance was that of Fredericksburg, 
in which it lost ten killed in battle. This was the 
last engagement during the year, and the time was 
taken up for many weeks in marches and counter- 
marches, with severe camp duty in the horrible weather 
of that season. 

After several months passed in inaction, if this most 
disagreeable part of the whole service can be called 


223 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


such, in the latter part of March, 1863, the regiment left 
the Atlantic coast, having been ordered to the West, 
and began its third, or Kentucky campaign. After a 
few weeks here of active service without much fighting, 
the regiment crossed over to Cincinnati, and passing 
through the States of Indiana and Illinois, it was soon 
at Cairo, and in June steamed down the Mississippi. 
Disembarking at Young’s Point, near Vicksburg, the 
army made a short and useless campaign in Louisiana 
and Mississippi, in which Jackson, the capital of the 
latter State, was taken possession of, with a good deal 
of skirmishing, but not much hard fighting. 

In August the regiment returned to the Mississippi, 
and started for Cairo, which it reached on the 12th. 
It immediately took cars for Covington, where it went 
into camp, but soon started through Kentucky for a 
campaign in Hast Tennessee, which occupied several 
months, spent mainly in marches and camp duty in a 
very uncertain country, with few fights of consequence, 
the most important being that at Campbell’s station, in 
November. The record of the regiment, until April 
when it took up its line of march for Harrisburg, is not 
exciting. Passing through Harrisburg, it arrived at 
Annapolis on the 7th, and went into camp. 

In the latter part of April the regiment broke camp, 
passed through Washington and took up its march into 
Virginia for a third campaign in that State. During 
the weeks that followed there was no want of excite- 
ment or active service, for the Wilderness campaign 
was one ever to be remembered by all that participated 
in it. 

On the 2d of June, the Second Corps, to which the 
Thirty-fifth was attached, commenced its advance 
towards Petersburg, and took up its position in the 
siege of that city, in which arduous duty it fully sus- 
tained its well-earned reputation, and also its full share 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 225 


of loss, which was, during that service, twelve killed and 
thirty-four wounded, out of one hundred and sixty fit 
for duty. 

The autumn campaign of the regiment was made 
towards the South on the line of the Weldon railroad 
and in the neighborhood of Poplar Spring church, but it 
took up its winter quarters upon the Appomattox. In 
the spring of 1865 came the closing scene in the war, 
the surrender of Lee, and the fighting in connection 
with that event, in which the regiment had its share. It 
was mustered out of the service on the 9th of June, 
1865, having been in active service about two years and 
three quarters, but was not paid off or discharged until 
the 27th, at Readville. 

The following statistics will show, in brief, the char- 
acter and work of the regiment: — 


Whole number enlisted and recruits . ° 1526; Co. H, 145 
Killed in battle or died of wounds : 1438; =s 12 
Died in service . 2 : A ; 935 ae 13 
Discharged on account of wounds or disease 344 ; a 26 
Deserted . , : ‘ ‘ - 38 ; as 6 
Unaccounted for ‘ : . : ; a 

Expiration of service : - : - 356 ; Ly 32 


FORTY-SECOND REGIMENT MASSACHUSETTS VOL- 
UNTEERS. 

This regiment was organized in the autumn of 1862, 
in consequence of the call for volunteers for one year, 
and was the outgrowth of the old Second Regiment of 
First Brigade, First Division of Massachusetts Volun- 
teers, recruited at Camp Meigs, Readville. Company 
A was wholly from Weymouth but the remainder of the 
regiment came from all parts of the State. 

It was mustered into the United States service in Sep- 
tember and October, 1862, but was not fully organized 


224 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


until Novy. 6, when the following officers were placed in 
command: colonel, Isaac 8S. Burrell; lieutenant-colonel, 
Joseph Stedman; major, Frederick G. Stiles; adjutant, 
Charles A. Davis. 

The regiment left Camp Meigs, Nov. 21, for New 
Orleans, via New York. Remained at Camp N. P. 
Banks at East New York, Union Race-Course, until 
Dec. 2, when it went to Brooklyn, whence it sailed 
in four transports for its point of destination ; Col. 
Burrell with Companies D, G and I on the “Saxon” 
on the 3d; arrived at Ship Island on the 14th, and New 
Orleans on the 16th. 

This detachment was ordered immediately to Galves- 
ton, leaving New Orleans on the 19th and reaching 
Galveston on the 24th, where they were attacked by the 
rebels 5000 strong, under Gen. Magruder, and after 
sustaining the “siege” for several days and seeing no 
prospect of help, they surrendered July 1, about two 
hundred and fifty or sixty in all, the losses of the 
rebels being, by their own acknowledgment, some three 
hundred or four hundred. | 

Companies A, B and F, under Lieutenant-Col. Sted- 
man, sailed from Brooklyn on Dee. 4, on the “ Quincy,” 
put into Hilton Head, disabled, on the 11th, and reached 
Carrollton, above New Orleans, the 29th, going into 
camp Jan. 3. The remainder of the regiment left 
Brooklyn on Dec. 5, Companies E and K, Capt. Davis, 
on the “Charles Osgood,” which reached Carrollton, 
Jan. 1; and Companies C and H, Major Stiles, on the 
“ Shetucket,” which arrived there on the 14th. 

These miserable old transports brought them into port 
too late to share the fate of their gallant colonel, and 
prevented them from achieving under him a glorious 
victory. The prisoners were afterwards parolled, and 
saw no more service other than that as prisoners in the 
hands of the rebels. 





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The remaining companies were attached, by the order 
of Gen. Banks, to the Second Brigade, Col. Farr, 
Second Division of the Nineteenth Army Corps, under 
Gen. W. T. Sherman. Their duty was mainly in 
garrison and guard about New Orleans, towards Lake 
Ponchartrain and up the Mississippi to Baton Rouge 
and Port Hudson, arduous and irksome but with very 
little fighting. 

At Galveston, the only occasion in which any of 
the regiment had an opportunity to show their mettle, 
they approved themselves of the same material as their 
comrades of other regiments who had won well-earned 
reputations as fighting regiments, and only surrendered 
when the defence became perfectly hopeless. 

In these various duties the time was spent until July 
31, when they were embarked on the government trans- 
port “ Continental,” reaching New York on the 8th of 
August and Boston on the 10th, having been run on the 
rocks off Point Judith during the passage from New 
York. They were furloughed until the 20th, when 
they were mustered out at Readville. 

“The services of the regiment, although varied, were 
well performed, and this report should not close without 
some praise for the enlisted men in its ranks. 

“Whatever duty they were called upon to perform was 
faithfully executed. Thoroughly imbued with the prin- 
ciple of the noble general | N. P. Banks] in whose corps 
they were placed, that ‘success is a duty,’ they always 
on all occasions cheerfully labored for success that duty 
might be done.” [Adjutant-General’s report, 1863. | 

The casualties of the regiment were, four killed, 
twenty wounded, thirty-two died of disease, and two 
hundred and fifty-six taken prisoners. 

Company A of Weymouth performed faithfully all 
the duties required of it, and if it did not have its full 
share of fighting, it was its misfortune and not its fault. 

15 


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FOURTH REGIMENT OF HEAVY ARTILLERY MASSACHU- 
SETTS VOLUNTEERS. 


The Twenty-third Company of Heavy Artillery 
(Company G, Fourth Regiment) Massachusetts Vol- 
unteers was largely composed of men from Weymouth, 
many of whom had seen service in other organizations. 
It was organized and mustered into the United States 
service on Aug. 27, 1864, for one year. It left the State 
on the 16th of September, and arrived at Washington 
on the 23d, where it was assigned to duty upon the 
defences of that city. With eleven other companies, it 
was-consolidated and formed the Fourth Regiment of 
Massachusetts Heavy Artillery on the 12th of Novem- 
ber following. 

The company consisted largely of new recruits; of 
the one hundred and forty-five who were its members, 
only thirty-four were re-enlistments. Seventeen of com- 
missioned and non-commissioned officers had been in 
the service before. Of the veterans, sixteen were for- 
merly members of the Forty-second Regiment Massa- 
chusetts Infantry, five of the Twelfth, and one each 
from the following organizations of Massachusetts 
Volunteers: First, Fourth, Fifth, Twenty-ninth, Thirty- 
fifth, Thirty-seventh, Forty-fifth, Fifty-second; also from 
Second New Hampshire Infantry, Second United States 
Artillery, Fifth Massachusetts Battery, and Eighth Mas- 
sachusetts Battery. The regiment was mustered out of 
service on the 17th of June, 1865, in consequence of 
the “close of the war.” 

During the term of its service it was connected with 
the 'T'wenty-second Army Corps, and, by the reports of 
the United States army inspectors to headquarters of 
the army, was not excelled in discipline, instruction or 
military appearance by any company in the corps. 


[Furnished by Captain Andrew J. Garey. | 


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SOLDIERS’ RECORD. 


Abbott, Luther C., 8th Regt., Maine. 

Adams, George M., sergt., 35th Regt., Co. H. 
Adlington, Stephen L., private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 
Adlington, Walter S., private, 11th Regt., Co. F; died. 
Allen, Charles H., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Allison, Walter, private at Watertown Arsenal. 

Ames, William F., lst Conn. Cav. 

Andrews, Edward G., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 
Atkinson, James, private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Bailey, Christopher T., corp., 12th Regt., Co. H. 
Bailey, Orestes L., private, 4th Cav. 

Baker, Andrew J., private, 3d Heavy Art. 

Baker, Calvin R., private, 33d Regt., Co. K. 

Baker, Charles H., musician, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Baker, Howard, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Baker, William H., private, 13th Regt., Co. H; killed. 
Baldwin, Everett, private, 12th Regt. 

Barnes, Ferdinand J., corp., 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Barnes, Robert B., private, 16th Light Bat. 

Bartlett, George, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Bates, Albert, private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Bates, Alfred L., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Bates, Charles W., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Bates, Elijah R., navy. 

Bates, James L., brig.-gen., 12th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Bates, John F., private, 13th Regt., Co. K. 

Bates, John W., lieut., 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Bates, Leavett, sergt., 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Bates, Levi L., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Bates, Lewis D. 

Bates, Samuel A., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Bates, Stephen, private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Bates, William L., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Beals, Elias F., corp., 12 Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Bearce, Simeon, private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Beard, Austin P., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Beaulieu, Moses, private, 11th Regt. 

Belcher, Alfred C., private, Ist Cav. 

Bicknell, Anson F., corp., 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Bicknell, Charles E., corp., 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Bicknell, Francis A., major, 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Bicknell, Frederick T., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; prisoner; died. 
Bicknell, George W., private, 14th Regt., Co. F; wounded; died. 
Bicknell, John Q., 43d Regt., Co. B. 

Bienville, Lewis, private, 11th Regt. 


228 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


Bingham, Clarence V. 

Binney, Isaac H., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Binney, John, sergt., 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Birmingham, Matthew, private, 12th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Birmingham, Richard. 

Blackman, John H., private, 12th Regt., Co. H; killed. 
Blanchard, Alonzo, private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 
Blanchard, Alonzo W., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 
Blanchard, Charles B., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; prisoner; died. 
Blanchard, Frank, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Blanchard, George W., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 
Blanchard, James B., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 
Blanchard, John, private, 32d Regt., Co. G. 

Blanchard, John, Jr., sergt., 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Blanchard, Mark M., private. 

Blanchard, Otis S., private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 
Blarchard, O. S., private, 58th Regt., Co. G; killed. 
Blanchard, Thomas S., private, 32d Regt., Co. A. 
Boodrue, John, 43d Regt., Co. B. 

Bourne, Ezekiel P., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Bourne, L. V., private, 2d Art., Co. H; died. 

Bowditch, Frederick H., musician, 42d Regt., Co. A. 
Bowker, James B., private, 12th Regt., Co. H; prisoner. 
Brady, Thomas, private, 29th Regt., Co. B. 

Bragg, Ira W., surgeon, navy; died. 

Bresnahan, Michael, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Briggs, Charles E., private, 14th Light Bat. 

Briggs, Henry H., private, 8th Vt. Regt., Co. G. 

Briggs, John H., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Brooks, Spencer L., sergt., 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Brown, Dennis, private, 9th Regt., Co. D; accidentally killed. 
Brown, George, navy. 

Brown, James, navy. 

Bryant, James A., corp., 4th Heavy Art., Co. G; prisoner. 
Buckmaster, Michael, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Buker, Leonard E., sergt., 32d Regt., Co. F. 

Burns, Francis D., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Burns, John W., private, 12th Regt., Co. H; prisoner. 
Burrell, Charles H., private, 83d Cav., Co. I; wounded. 
Burrell, David B., lieut., 12th Regt., Co. H; killed. 
Burrell, John G., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Burrell, John P., lieut., 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Burrell, Joseph H., Jr., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Burrell, W. L., private, Ist Heavy Art., Co. M; killed. 
Burrell, Martin D., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; prisoner. 
Burrell, Martin J., lieut., 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Burrell, Oliver, lieut., 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Burrell, Richmond. 





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Burrell, Richmond P., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Burrell, Samuel E., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Burrell, William L., private, 14th Heavy Art.; killed. 
Cady, Benjamin L., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Cady, Lorenzo, private, lst Heavy Art. 

Cahill, Thomas, private, 4th Cav.; killed. 

Cain, Leonard W., musician, 56th Regt., Co. C. 

Cain, Stephen, musician, 56th Regt., Co. C. 

Calnan, John. 

Canterbury, William, musician, 12th Rest. 

Carey, Timothy, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Carney, Thomas, private, 30th Regt.; died. 

Carney, William, private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Carroll, John, private, 3d Bat., R. I. 

Carroll, John, navy. 

Carroll, Michael, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Carter, Galen A., private, 16th Regt.; wounded and died. 
Chandler, Bradford, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Chapman, Daniel L., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Chase, Abial H., corp., 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Chessman, E. B., private, 32d Regt., Co. H; died. 

Childs, John, private, 3d Heavy Art. 

Churchill, Joshua F., private, 12th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Churchill, Julius R., private, 32d Regt., Co. G. 

Clapp, Loring O., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Clapp, William H., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Clark, Albert, private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Coburn, Hiram §., capt., 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Cokeley, Dennis, private, 9th Regt., Co. D. 

Cokeley, Humphrey, private, 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Coleman, Thomas, private, 24th Regt. 

Collet, Frederick, sergt., 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Colson, Frederick B., private, Ist Cav., Co. K. 

Conner, Daniel, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Conners, Patrick, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Cook, Thomas W., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; deserted. 
Coolidge, Amos R., private, 16th Light Bat. 

Coolidge, Francis E., private, 12th Regt., Co. C; killed. 
Coolidge, Frederick, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Coolidge, George H., private, 11th Regt., Co. K; died. 
Coolidge, Richard S., private, 11th Regt., Co. G; deserted. 
Coolidge, William F., private, 11th Regt., Co. K. 

Corban, Frank, private, 4th Regt., Co. C. 

Corban, Roswell L., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Corr, Owen, navy. 

Cotter, Patrick, private, 4th Cav.; died. 

Coughlan, Thomas, 42d Regt., Co. A. 


230 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


Cowing, Charles G., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Cowing, Henry V., private, 11th Regt., Co. F; prisoner. 
Crocker, Charles A., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; killed. 
Crocker, Elery C., sergt., 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Crocker, Enoch, private, 11th Regt., Co. F; killed. 
Cronin, Patrick. 

Cudworth, Benjamin, private, 42d Regt., Co. D. 

Cully, Andrew, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Cummings, William L., private, 4th Cav., Co. D; prisoner. 
Cunningham, John, private, 12th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Curtis, Charles H., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Cushing, Alanson B., navy. 

Cushing, Alfred T., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Cushing, Charles E., corp., 12th Regt., Co. H; prisoner and died. 
Cushing, David W., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; killed. 
Cushing, Edward, private, 12th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Cushing, Elbridge G., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Cushing, Francis H., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Cushing, Frederick O., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Cushing, George A., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Cushing, George C., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Cushing, George F., private, 16th Light Bat. 

Cushing, Henry F., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Cushing, John F., corp., 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Cushing, Thomas B., private, 12th Regt., Co. B; killed. 
Cushing, William E., private, 11th Reet., Co. F. 

Cushing, William N., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Cushing, William N. (2d), private, 14th Regt., Co. K. 
Cushing, William Newton, private, 2d Cav. 

Daffy, Thomas, private, 42d Regt., Co. D. 

Daggett, Henry T., private, Ist Cav. 

Dailey, Israel A., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Dallof, Albert W., private, 25th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Dalton, John W., private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Daly, Dennis, private, 1st Regt. 

Dame, Joseph T., private, 32d Regt., Co. F; killed. 
Damon, Albert, Co. H; wounded. 

Damon, Isaac B., private, 2d Regt. 

Damon, Joshua F., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Damon, Proctor A., private, Ist U. Heavy Art. 

Damon, Zachariah, private, 35th Regt., Co. H; died. 
Davidson, Albert, private, 13th Regt., Co. C. 

Davis, George R., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Davis, Horatio A., corp., 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Davis, John, private, 35th Regt., Co. H; died. 

Davis, Leonard I., private, 16th Light Bat. 

Davon, Michael, private, 10th Conn. Regt.; wounded. 
Davy, Manning, private, 38th Regt., Co. H. 





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Davy, William H., at Watertown Arsenal. 

Day, Greenleaf, musician, 4th Cav. 

Day, J. H., private, 6th Bat.; died. 

Day, James B., private; died. 

Day, Joshua D., corp., 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Dean, Benjamin R., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Dean, Seth, private, Cabot’s Art. 

Deere, Elias H., private, 12th Regt., Co.C; wounded. 
Delawney, Michael, private, 9th Regt., Co. C. 
Denbroeder, Adrainus, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 
Denton, Samuel C., musician, 56th Regt., Co. A. 
Derby, Alden, private, 12th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Derby, Franklin, sergt., 4th Cav., Co. B. 

Derby, George, private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Derby, Loring W., sergt., 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Derby, Thomas, Jr., sergt., 42d Regt., Co. A. 
Deselit, Louis. 

Deshon, Jason L., sergt., 12th Regt., Co. H; killed. 
Doble, George H., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Doherty, Bernard, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 
Donahoe, Stephen, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Donnelly, Frank, private, 9th Regt.; killed. 
Donnelly, J. Michael, private, 28th Regt.; killed, 
Donavon, Malachi, private, 9th Regt.; deserted. 
Donovan, Michael, navy. 

Doran, Daniel, private, 33d Regt. 

Downey, Thomas, private, 16th Regt. 

Duffy, Richard, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Dunbar, Charles H., lieut., 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Dunbar, David, corp., 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Dunbar, James D., private, 12th Regt., Co. H; prisoner. 
Dunbar, Warren, private, 12th Regt., Co. E. 
Dunbar, Willard J., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 
Dunn, John, corp., 14th Regt., Co. K. 

Duvall, Lewis, private, 32d Regt., Co. A; deserted. 
Dyer, William H., private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Earl, Daniel C., corp., 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Early, Edward, navy. 

Estes, Eli H., corp., 42d Regt. 

Estes, Herbert E., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Estes, Samuel, private, 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Fahey, Edward A., sergt., 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Fairbanks, George E., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 
Fairbanks, Gerry, private, 16th Light Bat. 

Farmer, Charles H., private, Signal Corps. 

Farmer, William H., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Farren, G. W., private, 4th Cav., Co. B; prisoner. 
Faulkner, Harrison, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 


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Fearing, Israel J., private, 14th Regt., Co. F; prisoner and died. 
Fennell, James, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Fennell, John, sergt., 25th Regt., Co. A; wounded. 
Fitzgerald, Patrick, private, 11th Regt.; killed. 

Fleming, Michael, private, 11th Regt.; killed. 

Flynn, John, navy. 

Fogarty, William, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Ford, Charles T., private, 3d Heavy Art. ; 
Ford, James B., private, 19th Reet., Co. I; wounded. 
Ford, Joseph B., wagoner, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Ford, Michael, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Forrest, Michael A., private, 2d Regt., Co. IL. 

Foss, Benjamin F., private, 11th Regt., Co. F.; killed. 
Fox, Owen, private, 42d Reet., Co. A. 

Foye, Samuel S., private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Fraher, Patrick, private, 2d Heavy Art., Co. D; prisoner and died. 
French, George W., corp., 12th Reet., Co. H; wounded. 
French, Samuel L., private, 12th Regt., Co. H; died. 
Furness, John. 

Gamage, Theodore A., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 
Gammons, Frederick, private, 35th Regt., Co. H; prisoner and died. 
Gannett, Charles E., sergt., 35th Reet., Co. H; died. 
Gannett, Joseph H., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Gardner, Edward B., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Gardner, George L., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Gardner, Henry A., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Gardner, Jacob, Jr., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Gardner, Jason, musician, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Garey, Andrew J., capt., 12th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Garvin, Edward, private, 33d Rest. 

Gay, John O., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Gay, Samuel E., sergt., 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Gerrold, Alexander M., navy. 

Gibbs, Benjamin S., private, 12th Regt., Co. E; wounded. 
Gibbs, Elisha J., lieut., 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Gillinghan, James R., private, 12th Reet., Co. H. 
Gillinghan, John, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Gloster, Patrick, private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Goldthwait, Charles, private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Goodwin, John M., at Watertown Arsenal. 

Goodwin, Samuel D., private, 12th Regt., Co. D. 

Goodwin, William A., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

. Goodwin, William H., private, Nim’s Bat., Co. B. 

Gordon, Joseph. 

Gorman, John, private, 36th Regt., N. Y., Co. K; wounded. * 
Gove, Andrew S., at Watertown Arsenal. 

Grant, Thomas, private, 12th Regt., Co. D; wounded. 
Graves, George D., private, 18th Regt. 





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Graves, Joshua. 

Gunning, Amos J., private 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Gustin, George A. 

Hackett, Patrick, private, 9th Regt.; killed. 

Haley, John, navy. 

Hall, Edward W., private, 7th Regt., Co. F; died. 

Halligan, Edward, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Halloran, James, private, 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Hamilton, Lucius M., musician, 12th Regt., Co. H; died. 
Hamilton, Otis R., private, 14th Regt., Co. K. 

Hanley, Michael (2d), private, 31st Regt. 

Harding, Ellsworth M., private, 4th Regt., Co. C. 
Harrington, Isaac N., private, 60th Regt. 

Harrington, Minot J., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 
Harrington, William, private, Ist Heavy Art. 

Hart, John W., lieut., 13th U. S. Art. 

Hart, Michael, 3d Heavy Art. 

Hastings, Charles W., capt., 12th Regt., Co. H; prisoner. 
Hawes, Bradford, private, lst Cav., Co. K. 

Hawes, Charles, private, 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Hayden, Albert C., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Hayden, George F., private, 12th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Hayward, Charles W., private, 28th Regt., Co. G; prisoner. 
Hayward, Isaiah T., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Heald,- Lysander, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Healy, Cornelius, 12th Regt., Co. A; killed. 

Healy, George R., private, 13th Regt., Co. C; died. 

Healy, Henry, private, 14th Regt., Co. K; wounded. 
Healy, James H., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Healy, William, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Hennessey, John, private, 3d Regt., U.S. Reg., Co. E; wounded. 
Hersey, Daniel D., private, 32d Regt., Co. F; died. 

Hersey, William S. 

Hersey, Wilson D., private, 18th Regt., Co. K; died. 
Hesse, Augustus, private, 9th Bat. 

Hewitt, Henry, private, 4th Cav., Co. B; prisoner and died. 
Hickey, Kenneth, private, 12th Regt., Co. E. 

Higgins, Lucius. 

Higgins, Michael, private, 42d Regt. 

Hill, Boyle D., private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Hobart, OtiseM., private, lst U. Heavy Art. 

Hobart, Thomas P., corp., 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Hobill, Ralph, private, 11th Regt., Co. 1; wounded and died. 
Hocking, William H., private, l4th Regt., Co. K. 
Holbrook, George, corp., 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Holbrook, George A., private, 12th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Holbrook, Jeremiah, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Holbrook, John Q. A., private, 42d Regt., Co. D. 


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Holbrook, Richard M., private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 
Holbrook, William, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Holbrook, William A., private, 4th Cav., Co. E; died. 
Holbrook, William O., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Hollis, Adoniram B., corp., 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Hollis, Asaph L., private, 12th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Hollis, George, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Hollis, Henry S., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded and died. 
Hollis, Isaac N., Jr., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Hollis, John F., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Hollis, John O., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Hollis, John Q., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Hollis, Leroy S., private, 4th Regt., Co. C. 

Holmes Jesse H., private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Holmes, Lyman T., sergt., 35th Regt., Co. H; killed. 
Holmes, Marcus M., private, 11th Regt., Co. G; wounded. 
Hope, John, private, 24th Regt., Co. K; wounded. 
Houghton, Edzel, private, 16th Light Bat. 

Houghton, Oliver, private, 16th Light Bat. 

Howard, Henry, private. 

Humphrey, Clinton C., private, 8th Bat. 

Hunt, Henry N., private, lst U. Heavy Art. 

Hunt, James L., private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Hunt, John Q., corp., 35th Regt., Co. H; killed. 

Hunt, Samuel W., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Hunt, Webster W., 4th Heavy Art. 

Hunt, William, private, 12th Regt., Co. E. 

Jackson, Nelson §S., private, 14th Regt., Co. K; prisoner and died. 
Jacobs, Daniel, private, lst Cav. 

Jones, Charles G., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Jones, Granville R. 

Jones, James G., Ist Heavy Art., Co. M; died. 
Jaquith, Reuben, private, 16th Light Bat. 

Josephs, Uriel, corp., 42d Regt., Co. A; died. 

Joy, George F., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Joy, Walter H., musician, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Joyce, E. L., private, lst Heavy Art, Co. M; killed. 
Keating, Thomas H., musician, 12th Regt., Co. H. 
Keep, William J., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Keily, Timothy, private. 

Kelley, Thomas, private, 42d Regt., Co. C. 

Kendrigan, Edward, private, 3d Cav. 

Kenney, Bernard, private, 83d Heavy Art. 

Kennison, Benjamin R., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 
Kerr, Owen, private, 28th Regt., Co. C; wounded. 
Kilburn, Charles E., private, Ist Cav.; wounded and supposed dead. 
Kimball, Selden, private, 16th Light Bat. 

Kingman, Nathan, private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 





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Kirby, Patrick, private, 7th Regt. 

Kittredge, Paul C., private, 12th Regt., Co. H; died. 
Knights, Edward, private, 3d Mass. Heavy Art., Co. A. 
La Forrest, Frederick, private, 4th Reet. 

Lajoye, Joseph, private, 12th Regt., Co. D; killed. 
Lamson, Daniel, sergt., 35th Regt., Co. H; killed. 
Lane, Parker E., private, 4th Regt., Co. C. 

Lane, S. Cushing, engineer, navy. 

Lane, Webster, engineer, navy. 

Lantz, David J., private, 42d Regt., Co. A; prisoner. 
Larmay, Joseph, private, 12th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Larmay, Leander. 

Lary, William, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Lathrop, Hiram G., private, 12th Regt. 

Lathrop, Washington I., private, 13th Regt., Co. F; killed. 
Leach, Adnah G., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Leach, Ezra W., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Lemar, Joseph, private, 11th Regt., Co. E; wounded. 
Leonard, Alonzo H., corp., 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Leonard, Charles H., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Leonard, Charles M., private, 11th Regt., Co. F. 
Leonard, John, 22d Regt.; died. 

Lewis, Edward, lieut., 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Lewis, George F., private, 12th Regt., Co. H; killed. 
Lewis, William A., private, 38th Regt., Co. D; killed. 
Lewis, William H., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 
Lincoln, Daniel, private, 32d Regt., Co. A. 

Lincoln, Daniel W., private, 4th Regt., Co. C. 
Lincoln, Samuel, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Lindsley, Frederick, at Watertown Arsenal. 

Lines, Patrick, private, 24th Regt. 

Linnell, Samuel D., private, 2d Heavy Art., Co. L. 
Linton, Augustus A., private, 11th Regt., Co. F. 
Linton, E. Frank, private, 11th Regt., Co. F. 
Littlefield, Lemuel P., private, 14th Regt., Co. K; wounded and died. 
Livingston, George H., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 
Lloyd, Charles S., lieut., 35th Regt., Co. H. 
Londergan, Thomas, private, 42d Regt , Co. A. 

Long, William, private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Loring, Benjamin J., 5th Regt., Co. G. 

Loring, Charles H., private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 
Loubey, Edward, private, 11th Regt.; missing. 

Loud, Byron W., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Loud, Francis M., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Loud, John A., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Loud, John F., sergt., 32d Regt., Co. F; wounded. 
Loud, Josiah E., private, U. Cav., Co. A. 

Loud, Livingston W., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 


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Loud, Samuel R., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Loud, Thomas B., private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Loud, William E., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Louney, Daniel E., private, 63d Regt., N. Y., Co. C; wounded, prisoner, 
died. 

Lovell, Benjamin S., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Lovell, Frank G., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Lovell, George, private, 16th Regt. 

Lovell, Jacob R., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Lovell, James A., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Lovell, William L., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Lynch, Patrick, private, 9th Regt., Co. H. 

Lyon, George P., capt.; 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Macauley, Matthew, private, 12th Regt., Co. H; prisoner. 

Mahan, Jerry, private. 

Makepiece, Horace M., 42d Regt., Co. D. 

Mangon, Charles, private. 

Mann, George H., private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Marden, Lewis C., corp., 42d Regt., Co. A; died. 

Marden, Newell, private, 29th Regt., Co. H. 

Marlow, Peter, private, Ist Regt. 

Martin, Edwin, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Mason, Adoniram J., lieut., 35th Regt., Co. H. 

May, John D., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Maynard, George F., corp., 12th Regt., Co. H. 

McAllister, Samuel A., 16th Regt., Co. G; died. 

McArdle, Patrick A., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

McAuliffe, Dennis, private, 9th Regt., Co. [; killed. 

McCarthy, John, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

McCarthy, John, private, 9th Regt., Co. B. 

McCauley, Dennis. 

McCue, Patrick, private, 14th Regt., Co. H. é 

McDavitt, William, private, 16th Light Bat. 

McGill, John, private, 35th Regt., Co. H; deserted. 

McGill, Stephen, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

McGrath, Michael, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

McGuire, James, private. 

McGuire, Patrick, private, 9th Regt., Co. K. 

McGuire, Thomas, private, 9th Regt., Co. I. 

McKenzie, Daniel B., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

McMakens, John, private, 12th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 

McMorrow, Charles J., private, 11th Regt., Co. G; wounded. 

Merchant, William F., private, 12th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 

Miller, Alonzo R., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Mitchell, George W., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Mitchell, William, private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Moore, Martin F., private, 16th Light Bat.; died. 

Moran, James F., private, 4th Heavv Art., Co. G. 





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Moran, William H., private, 3d Heavy Art. 

Morgan, Thomas T., private, llth Regt., Co. E. 
Morrell, Charles A., lieut., 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Morrell, Charles G., corp., 35th Regt., Co. H. 
Morrison, James, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Moulton, Harrison, private, 2d Light Bat., Co. B. 
Munroe, Alfred C., private, 12th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Murphy, Eugene. 

Murphy, Jeremiah, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Murphy, Martin, private, 9th Regt., Co. B; wounded. 
Murphy, Terence, private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Murphy, Timothy. 

Murphy, William H., private, 32d Regt., Co. A; wounded. 
Nash, Aaron P., Jr., private, 12th Regt., Co. C; wounded. 
Nash, Elbridge, private, 44th Regt. 

Nash, Franklin A., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Nash, William C., private, 16th Light Bat. 
Nightingale, Thomas J., private, 11th Regt., Co. K. 
Nolan, Daniel, private, 16th Light Bat. 

Nolan, James, private, 16th Light Bat. 

Norton, Royal, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
O’Brien, Richard, private, 9th Regt., Co. G. 

O’Connell, Maurice, private, 2d Regt. 

O’Conner, Timothy, private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 
O’Conner, John, private. 

O’Donnell, Patrick, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Orcutt, Augustus E., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; died. 
Orcutt, Benjamin H., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Orcutt, Charles, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Orcutt, George O., private, 12th Regt., Co. H; died. 
Orcutt, James M., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Orcutt, William, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Osgood, George W.., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Parks, John, private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Parrott, Josiah R., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Parry, John, private, 32d Regt., Co. A. 

Pedman, William J., private, 14th Regt., Co. K; wounded. 
Perrigo, Charles C., private, 30th Regt.; died. 

Perry, George H., navy. 

Perry, Henry, private, 22d Regt., Co. F. 

Peterson, Alfred, private, 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Pettes, I. D. Howe, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 
Philbrick, Stephen K., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Phillips, Lewis, private, 24th Regt. 

Pierce, David J., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Pierce, Eliot C., major, 13th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Pike, William, private, 25th Regt., Co. H; killed. 
Pond, Henry V., private, 60th Regt. 


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Pool, Samuel B., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Pope, Charles A., sergt., 12th Regt., Co. H; wounded and died. 
Pope, Clinton F., private, 42d Reet., Co. A. 

Pope, Warren W., private, 12th Reet., Co. H. 

Porter, Hiram, private, 29th Regt., Co. G. 

Porter, Jonathan K., corp., 12th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Powers, Peter, private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Pratt, Asa B., corp., 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Pratt, Benjamin (2d), private, 42d Regt., Co. D; prisoner. 
Pratt, Benjamin F., brey. brig-gen., 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Pratt, Benjamin F. (2d), private, 35th Reet., Co. H. 
Pratt, Benjamin F. (3d), corp., 35th Regt., Co. H; prisoner. 
Pratt, Charles, private, 4th Cay. 

Pratt, Chester D., private, Ist Cav. 

Pratt, Francis B., capt., 12th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Pratt, Francis S., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Pratt, George H., private, 24th Reet. 

Pratt, George Hiram, private, 2d Cav., Co. C. 

Pratt, Henry, private, 4th Cav., Co. G. 

Pratt, Henry F., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Pratt, James, private, 35th Regt., Co. H; died. 

Pratt, Josiah H., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Pratt, J. Quincy, private, 4th Cav., Co. B; killed. 

Pratt, Leander. 

Pratt, Leonard, private, 35th Regt., Co. H; killed. 
Pratt, Leonard F., corp., 12th Regt., Co. H; died. 

Pratt, Samuel, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Pray, Samuel, private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Prouty, Elijah, private, 4th Regt., Co. C; died. 

Prouty, Oliver B., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Pry, Thomas W., private, 3d Heavy Art. 

Puffer, James E., private, 32d Regt., Co. F; killed. 
Putillow, Frank A., private, 4th Cav.; died. 

Quinn, Jeremiah, private, 42d Regt., Co. D. 

Rand, James W., private, 59th Regt., Co. I. 

Randall, Martin L., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Ray, William N., navy. 

Raymond, Bela T., private, 42d Regt., Co. I. 

Raymond, Benjamin, private, 42d Regt., Co. I. 
Raymond, Charles W., private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 
Raymond, Horace B. 

Raymond, James G., 4th Cav., Co. D; died. 

Raymond, James G., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 
Raymond, T. H., private, 4th Regt., Co. C. 

Raymond, Thomas W., private, 4th Cav., Co. E. 
Raymond, Walter B. 

Rea, John D., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Rea, William M., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 


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Reamy, Joseph, private, 4th Cav., Co. E. 

Reckards, Winslow M., corp., 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Redmond, Charles S., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 
Remington, Foster. 

Rennard, Henry F., private, 3d Cay.; killed. 

Reed, Franklin, private, 4th Cav., Co. B; prisoner. 
Reed, Matthew, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Reed, Salmon, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Reed, Thomas, private, 60th Regt. 

Reynolds, William H., private, 4th Cay., Co. E. 
Rice, Stephen L., private, 16th Light Bat. 

Rice, Urban, navy. 

Rice, William P., sergt., 35th Regt., Co. H. 
Richards, Benjamin F., corp., 12th Regt., Co. H. 


Richards, Charles L., private, 18th Regt., Co. H; wounded and died. 


Richards, Charles N., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Richards, David P., private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Richards, George W., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Richards, Samuel M., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Richards, William H., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Richardson, Emery, private, 11th Regt., Co. F. 

Richardson, F. P. 

Riley, Michael, private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Riley, Timothy, private, 11th Regt., Co. D; deserted. 
Ritchie, Henry, private, 35th Regt., Co. H; died. 
Roachman, John, private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Robbins, Charles H., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded and died. 
Robbins, Christopher C., private, 83d Md. Kegt., Co. D; wounded. 
Robinson, Benjamin F., corp., 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Robinson, Wilber F., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Robinson, William H., private, 18th Regt., Co. K. 
Rockwood, Elisha R., lieut., 4th Heavy Art., Co. G; wounded. 
Rogers, Daniel F., 12th Regt., Co. H; prisoner and died. 
Ross, Samuel J., private, 38th Regt., Co. K. 

Rowe, James, private, 35th Regt., Co. H; died. 

Rowley, Edward, private, 9th Regt., Co. C. 

Ruggles, George, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Ryan, John, 3d Cay., Co. C. 

Ryan, Timothy, private, 28th Regt., Co. D; wounded. 
Sampson, John M., private, lst U. Heavy Art. 

Sargent, Edward W., private, 16th Light Bat. 

Sargent, George W., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Sargent, Walter H. 

Scully, John, private, 9th Bat: 

Shannahan, Jeremiah, private, 16th Regt. 

Shannahan, William, private, 20th Regt. 

Shaw, Augustus E., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Shaw, Austin B., private, 14th Regt., Co. K; wounded. 


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Shaw, E. Faxon, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Shaw, George, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Shaw, Gilbert M., corp., 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Shehan, Dennis, private, 16th Regt.; killed. 

Shepherd, Joseph E., private, 13th Regt., Co. F. 
Shergold, Nehemiah, private, 12th Regt. 

Simpson, Oliver E., private, lst Regt., Co. I; killed. 
Skinner, Robert G., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Slason, William T., corp., 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Slatterly, Edward, private, 12th Regt., Co. C; wounded. 
Slatterly, John G., private, 12th Regt., Co. H; probably killed. 
Slatterly, Patrick, 42d Regt., Co. B. - 

Smiledge, Alfred B., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 
Smiledge, John S., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Smith, Bernard, navy. 

Smith, Cornelius, navy. 

Smith, Frank, Watertown Arsenal. 

Smith, James, navy. 

Smith, Jason, Jr., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; died. 
Smith, John, private, 12th Regt. 

Smith, John (2d), navy. 

Smith, Richard B., sergt., 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Smith, William W., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; killed. 
Snell, William, 20th Regt., Co. A. 

Spear, Albert A., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Spear, Charles H., private, 11th Regt., Co. F. 

Spear, Josiah Q., corp., 85th Regt., Co. H. 

Spear, Richard, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Spencer, Jeremiah, private, 18th Regt., Co. K. 
Spinney, Harris H., corp., 12th Regt., Co. H; wounded and prisoner. 
Spooner, William A., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 
Springer, Samuei b., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 
Stackpole, Oliver B., private, 42d Regt., Co. A; died. 
Starbuck, George, private, 2d Regt., Co. I; died. 
Stevens, James H., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 
Stoddard, Addison, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Stoddard, Elbridge I., sergt., 12th Regt., Co. H. 
Stoddard, Henry A., private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 
Stoddard, John H., private, 42d Regt., Co. D. 

Stoddard, Sargent L., private, 42d Regt., Co. D; prisoner. 
Stone, William E., private, 2d Cav., Co. I. 

Sutton, Reuben. 

Swan, Gideon R., 20th U. Heavy Art. 

Sweares, Henry, private, 12th Regt., Co. H; killed. 
Sweeny, Robert, navy. 

Sweeting, Putnam I., private, 24th Regt., Co. F. 
Taylor, Joseph F., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Thayer, George R., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 





SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 241 


Thayer, John Q. A., private, 12th Regt., Co. H; prisoner. 
Thayer, Joseph W., private, 12th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Thayer, Nathaniel A., private, 12th Regt., Co. E. 

Thayer, N. W., private, 12th Regt., Co. H; prisoner and died. 
Thayer, Samuel G., private, 12th Regt., Co. C; prisoner. 
Thayer, Stillman, private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Thayer, Watson, sergt., 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Thayer, William G., private, 12th Regt., Co. E; wounded. 
Thomas, Albert, private, 4th Regt., Co. C. 

Thomas, Allen, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Thomas, Benjamin F., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 
Thomas, Edwin, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Thomas, Edwin (2d), capt., 3d U. Heavy Art. 

Thomas, Francis L., lieut., 12th Regt., Co. H; killed. 
Thomas, Isaac, private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Thomas, John, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Thomas, Leonard, private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Thomas, Minot A., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Thomas, Nelson, sergt., 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Thompson, Harrison G., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Thompson, Josiah, Jr., private, 12th Regt., Co. H; killed. 
Thompson, Sumner, private, 16th Light Bat.; died. 
Thompson, Zenas M., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Tirrell, Albert H., lieut., lst Cav. 

Tirrell, Albert J., private, 14th Regt., Co. K. 

Tirrell, Alfred W., lieut., 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Tirrell, Augustus, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Tirrell, E. P., private, 3d Heavy Art. 

Tirrell, Ebenezer, Jr., sergt., 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Tirrell, Edwin F., sergt., 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Tirrell, Francis B., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Tirrell, Franklin, corp., 32d Regt., Co. F; died. 

Tirrell, George W., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Tirrell, John W., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Tirrell, Levi, private, 12th Regt. 

Tirrell, Major, private, 33d Regt.; wounded. 

Tirrell, Warren, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Tirrell, Winfield B., corp., 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Tomalty, Owen, private, 63d Regt., N. Y., Co. B. 
Toombs, Eliot L., private. 

Torrey, Appleton H., private, 11th Regt., Co. B. 

Torrey, Benjamin F., private, 12th Regt., Co. C. 

Torrey, Charles D., sergt., Ist U. Heavy Art. 

Torrey, Charles L., private, 32d Regt., Co. A. 

Torrey, James L., private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Torrey, Joseph E., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Torrey, Joshua L., private, 1st Cav., Co. A. [died. 
Torrey, Lorenzo, private, 12th Regt., Co. H; wounded, prisoner, and 


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242 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


Torrey, Naaman, private, 35th Regt., Co. H; died. 

Torrey, Naaman J., private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Torrey, Noah W., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Torrey, Richard L., private, 11th Regt., Co. B; wounded and supposed 
killed. 

Torrey, Richmond, private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Torrey, Sumner F., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Torrey, Turner, private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Totman, Elmer H., private, 2d Heavy Art., Co. D. 

Totman, Irving J., private, 2d Heavy Art., Co. C; died. 

Townsend, William, private, lst U. Heavy Art. 

Tracy, Patrick, private, 3d Heavy Art. 

Trask, Joseph, private, 29th U. Heavy Art. 

Trott, Charles R., corp., 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Trufant, Edgar H., private, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Trufant, Edward F., private, 11th Regt., Co. F; killed. 

Turner, Waldo, private, 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 

Tyndall, John, private 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 

Vance, William, private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Viger, Joseph, musician, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Vining, Adoniram E., private, 14th Regt., Co. F; prisoner. 

Vining, Alonzo, private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Vining, Andrew J., private, 24th Regt., Co. K. 

Vining, Daniel, drummer, 35th Regt., Co. H. 

Vining, George H., private, 14th Regt., Co. F. 

Vining, George W., corp., 12th Regt., Co. H; killed. 

Vining, N. F., private, 4th Cav., Co. E. 

Vining, Solon A., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Vining, William A., private, lst Cav., Co. I. 

Vogel, Henry B., 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 

Walker, Edwin, private, 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 

Walker, George, private, 12th Regt., Co. F; wounded and died. 

Walker, Isaac H., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Walker, Roscius R., Watertown Arsenal. 

Wall, Patrick, private, 11th Regt., Co. B. 

Walsh, Michael, private, 12th Regt. 

Ward, James, private, 3d Heavy Art. 

Ward, Patrick, private, 3d Heavy Art. 

Ware, Lawrence A., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 

Warren, Ephraim L., major, 22d Regt. 

Weed, Otis H., Jr., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Weeks, James, private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Weeks, Nathan, private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Welch, James (3d), private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Wendall, James C., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

Whelan, Edmund B., private, 3d Regt. U. 8. Regulars, Co. E; prisoner. 

Whelan, John H., lieut., 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Whitcomb, John M., private, 4th Regt., Co. C. 


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SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 243 


White, Benjamin, private, 1st Regt. 

White, Calvin T., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
White, Charles H., private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
White, Francis E., lieut., 4th N. Y. Cav., Co. G. 

White, Herbert, Watertown Arsenal. 

White, Henry, sergt., 42d Regt., Co. A. 

White, Frederick R., private, 38th Regt., Co. A. 
White, J. Francis, lst Heavy Art., Co. C. 

White, James, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

White, Patrick, private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 

White, Robert H., musician, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

White, Robert S., musician, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

White, Sanford, private, 38th Reet., Co. A. 

White, Warren F., private, 3d Heavy Art. 

White, William, lieut., 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded. 
Whiting, Charles D., private, lst U. Heavy Art. 
Whiting, Harrison, private, 12th Regt., Co. H; prisoner. 
Whitman, Theron W., private, 60th Regt. 

Whitmarsh, John Q., private, 12th Regt., Co. C; killed. 
Whitmarsh, Peter, private, 16th Light Bat. 

Whitney, Edwin, private, 4th Heavy Art., Co. G. 
Whittemore, William, private, 32d Regt. 

Wilber, Charles C. 

Willet, G. F., private, 4th Cav.; wounded and died. 
Williams, Charles S., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 
Williams, Eugene S., private, 4th Cay., Co. B; killed. 
Williamson, Joseph, private, 14th Regt., Co. K; wounded and died. 
Willis, Stephen R., corp., 35th Regt., Co. H; killed. 
Winslow, Joseph B., sergt., 12th Regt., Co. H. 
Winslow, Nathan F., private, 35th Regt., Co. H; wounded and died. 
Woodward, Sylvester R., private, 42d Regt., Co. A. 
Worster, E. Frank, Watertown Arsenal. 

Wright, C. Wesley, private, 4th Cav., Co. B; prisoner. 
Wright, Henry, private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 

Wright, William H., navy. 

Wrightington, Judah, private, 18th Regt., Co. C. 
Young, Benjamin M., private, 12th Regt., Co. H. 
Young, Job, private, 16th Light Bat. 





APPENDIXES. 





APPENDIX A. 


[Pace 26.] 


Tue following is a list of this company that came in 
with Rey. Joseph Hull: — 


‘¢ Waymouth 
y® 20th of BOUND FOR NEW ENGLAND. 
March 1635 
1 Joseph Hall [Hull’] of Somerssta Minist aged 40 yeare 
2 Agnis hall his Wife aged 25 y™ 
3 Joane Hall his daught® aged 15 yeare 
4 Joseph Hall his sonne aged 13 yeare 
5 Tristram his son aged 11 yeare 
6 Elizabeth Hall his daught® aged 7 yeare 
7 Temperance his daught’ aged 9 yeare 
8 Gressell Hull his daught aged 5 yeare 
9 Dorothy Hull his daught* aged 3 yeare 
10 Judeth French his srvaunt aged 20 yeare 
11 John Wood his srvaunt aged 20 yeare 
12 Robt Dabyn his srvaunt aged 28 yeare 
13 Musachiell Bernard of batcombe Clothier of the County 
Somersett 24 yeare 
14 Mary Bernard his wife aged 28 yeare 
15 John Bernard his sonne aged 3 yeare 
16 Nathaniell his sonne aged 1 yeare 
17 Rich. Persons salter & his srvant: 30: yeare 
18 Francis Baber Chandler aged 36 yeare 
19 Jesope Joyner aged 22 yeare 
20 Walter Jesop Weaver aged 21 yeare 
21 Timothy Tabor in Somss' of Batcombe taylor aged 35 


yeares 


['It will be noticed that, by a mistake of the officer who made out the 
list, the name is spelled Hall until Gressell is reached, when itis corrected. 
Agnes was the second wife, married shortly before the emigration.] 


248 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


22 Jane Tabor his wife aged 35 yeare 

23 Jane Tabor his daugh" aged 10 yeare 

24 Anne Tabor his daught™ aged 8 yeare 

25 Sarah Tabor his daught' aged 5 yeare 

26 Willm Fever his srvaunt aged 20 yeare 

27 Jn° Whitmarsk aged 39 yeare 

28 Alce Whitmarke his Wife aged 35 yeare 

29 Jm* Whitmarcke his sonne aged 11 yeare 

30 Jane his daught' aged 7 yeare 

31 Onseph Whitmarke his sonne aged 5 yeare 

32 Rich: Whytemark his sonne aged 2 yeare 

33 Willm Read of Batcombe Taylor in Somss* aged 28 
yeare 

34 

35 Susan Read his Wife aged 29 yeare 

36 Hanna Read his daugh" aged 3 yeare 

37 Susan Read his daught* aged 1 yeare 

38 Rich: Adams his srvante 29 yeare 

39 Mary his Wife aged 26 yeare 

40 Mary Cheame his daught* aged 1 yeare 

4t Zachary Bickewell aged 45 yeare 

42 Agnis Bickwell his Wife aged 27 yeare 

43 Jn° Bickwell his sonne aged 11 yeare 

44 Jn° Kitchin his servaunt 23 yeare 

46 George Allin aged 24 yeare 

47 Katherin Allyn his Wife aged 30 yeare 

48 George Allyn his sonne aged 16 yeare 

49 Willm Allyn his sonne aged 8 yeare 

50 Mathew Allyn his sonne aged 6 yeare 

51 Edward Poole his srvant aged 26 yeare 

52 Henry Kingman aged 40 yeare 

53 Joane his wife beinge aged 39 

54 Edward Kingman his son aged 16 yeare 

55 Joane his daught* aged 11 yeare 

56 Anne his daught’ aged 9 yeare 

57 Thomas Kingman his sonne aged 7 yeare 

58 John Kinghman his sonne aged 2 yeare 

59 J" Ford his servaunt aged 30 yeare 

60 William Kinge age 40 yeare 





APPENDIX A. 


Dorothy his Wife aged 34 yeare 

Mary Kinge his daught' aged 12 yeare 
Katheryn his daught™ aged 10 yeare 
Willm Kinge his sonne aged 8 yeare 
Hanna Kinge his daught' aged 6 yeare 
Thomas Holbrooke of Broadway aged 34 yeare 
Jane Holbrooke his wife aged 34 yeare 
John Holbrooke his sonne aged 11 yeare 
Thomas Holbrooke his sonne aged 10 yeare 
Anne Holbrooke his daught’ aged 5 yeare 
Elizabeth his daught’ aged 1 yeare 
Thomas Dible husbandm aged 22 yeare 
Francis Dible Soror aged 24 yeare 
Robert Lovell husbandman aged 40 yeare 
Elizabeth Lovell his wife age 35 year 
Zacheus Lovell his sonne 15 yeares 

Anne Lovell his daught' aged 16 yeare 
John Lovell his sonne aged 8 yeare 

Ellyn his daught™ aged 1 yeare 

James his sonne aged 1 yeare 

Joseph Chickin his servant 16 yeare 
Alice Kinham aged 22 yeare 

Angell Hollard aged 21 yeare 

Katheryn his Wife 22 yeare 

George Land his servaunt 22 yeare 

Sarah Land his kinswoman 18 yeare 
Richard Joanes of Dinder 

Robt Martyn of Babcombe husbandm 44 
Humfrey Shepheard husbandm 22 

John Upham husbandman 35 

Joane Martyn 44 

Elizabeth Upham 32 

John Upham Jun 07 

William Grane 12 

Sarah Upham 26 

Nathaniell Upham 05 

Elizabeth Upham 03 

Dorsst Richard Wade of Simstuly Cop aged 60 
Elizabeth Wade his Wife 6 


249 


250 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


100 Dinah his daught* 22 

101 Henry Lush his srvant aged 17 
102 Andrew Hallett his srvaunt 28 
103 John hoble husbandm 13 

104 Robt Huste husbandm 40 

105 John Woodcooke 2 

106 Rich: Porter husband 3 


JOHN PORTER, Deputy 
Cleark to Epw: 
‘THOROUGHGOOD. 


The above is from the “ New England Historical and 
Genealogical Register,” Vol. XXV. pp. 18, 14, 15, Jan- 
uary, 1871, and is headed as follows: — 


MORE PASSENGERS FOR NEW ENGLAND. 
[Communicated by William S. Appleton, A. M., of Boston, Mass.] 


“The following has just been received from our asso- 
ciate member: — 


Lonpvon, Sept. 1870. 
My prear Mr. Aprieton, — 

Amongst a bundle of miscellaneous manuscripts just turned 
up in the Public Record Office, I find, with other documents 
relating to New England, the following list of passengers, 
which I have the pleasure of sending to you for publication in 


the Register. 
I remain, Yours very truly, 


H. G. Sommrsy.” 


It will be noticed how small a proportion of these 
families became permanent residents in the town, only 
six of the twenty-one being found there less than a 
generation later. 





APPENDIX B. ZOL 


APPENDIX B. 


[Pace 28.] 


Tue following copy of the original deed of the terri- 
tory of Weymouth given by the Indians is copied 
literally from the town records, and differs in many 
details, although the same in essential matters, with 
that entered upon the Suffolk Record of Deeds. This 
seems to be the older record, while that in Boston was 
entered in 1685: — 


“An AGREEM™ BETWEENE Y® INHABITANTS OFF WAMOUTH 
CONCERNING THERE LAND SOLD NOW TO Y¥® TOWNE OFF 
W AMOUTH 

THIS PRESENTE YEARE 1642 y® 26™ orr y= 2° m°. 


Know all men by theese presents yt whereas we Wampetuc 
alias Josias Webcowett Nateaunte and Nahauton did formerly 
possess and retaine y® Land of Wessagussett now cald Wamouth 
we whose names are above written whoe are now y® P2 owners 
of y® afores’ Land of y® Towne now cald Wamouth viz: 
Wampetuc alias Josias Webcowett Nateaunte and Nahauton 
As we had it given to us fro our predecessors viz: a greate 
Sagamore cald Wampetuc We doe hereby declare and publish 
to all men y* ffor & in consideration yt we y® aforesd persons 
have recd from y*® English men whoe are now planted In & 
about y' place of Wessagusset (now cald Wamouth) Sixe Acors 
off ground empayld & broken up and one house as also 
fowre and Twentye Acors of ground lying neare y® small pond 
neare y*® plantation or Towne now cald Wamouth. In Con- 
sideration whereoff we y® aforesd p’sons have and doe ffully 
give and graunte assigne sett over and absolutely yeald up all 
y' afores’ ground before spoken off and all y* estate right 
title Interest possessione benefitt claime and demaund y‘ we 
y° aforesd p’tyes or any off us had may might or ought to 


252 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


have in or to y* sd premises or any p’te or p’cel thereoff: 
And this is our ffull interest yt y® aforesd p’sons shall hould to 
y and theres fforever all y' ground - 

And hereby we doe ffully and ffreely declare y' we are ffully 
satisfied ffor our former Interest And doe now account y® 
English now living there in yt Towne off Wamouth y® true 
and p’p owners of y® Bounds off y*® Towne according to y*? 
Limits ordered by y® Generall Courte And hereby we doe 
publish to all yt we bind our selves and ours forever to main- 
teine this our dede and sale to y® presente inhabitants of - 
wamouth forerly cald wessagusset and to y‘* posteritie ffor 
ever: And for as much as now y® Aforesd ground is now become 
y° true propietie off y® presente inhabitants off y® aforesd place 
to y and y** forever we y® aforesd p’sons above specified 
doe account our selves now inhabitants off y° Towne & y*” fore 
to enjoy all privilidges with y & noe other than y selves enjoy 
and doe p’miss y* we will live orderly among y iff y® receive 
any déage through our abode with y either by our dogs traps 
or otherwise we will ffully recdpence y® damage as y® English 
in y® Towne yt are Towne dwellers doe In witness whereoff 
wee have sett our hands 


JAMES PARKER The § marke off Wamrrtuc & y® 
WILL: JEFFERAY The= marke off WEBCOWETT 
Wuiuium CarPenteR Then marke off NATEAUNTE 
JoHN UPppaME The V marke off NaHauton 


THomAas WHITE 


In presence of us 
Epwarp BENNETT 
JAMES LUDDON 
5 mark of T H 

THo® HoLBRooKkE 


The following is entered on the margin of the deed: — 


Dated 3 1 1652 

An agreemt made with Natahant in y*® behalfe of y® Indians 
that have right to 24 acors of planting land which land they 
were to have by y® ffresh Pond neere the Towne which land y® 
sd Natahant is content to take for himselfe and the Rest of the 





APPENDIX B. 253 


Indians that have right to this land aboue Smilt Brooke to 
which agree™ I y® aboue s* Natahant have set my hand 
The °-s marke off Natahant in y® presence off us Townsmen 


JouHn Rogers 
JOHN HOLBROK 
THomAas HoLBROOKE 


Capt John Holbrook aged about 66 years testify & saith ' 
that he was present and did see Natahant an Indian signe & 
acknowledge this writing aboue to be his Act & Deed & that he 
this deponent w™ the other witnesses (Selectmen of the Towne 
of Weymoth) sett their hands as witnesses. 

Sworne in Boston July 9", 1685. 


Before us, 
Joun RicHarpDs: 
Exisua Cooxr. 


The 7" day of July, 1685 James Ludden Senior of Way- 
moth in New England aged: 74 yeares; whose Name is Sub- 
scribed as the onely Surviving witness to this Deed of Sale 
made by the Indians of y® Towne of Waymoth as on the other 
side doth ffully appeare ; he the said James Ludden p’rsonally 
apeared before me under writt and on his Corporall oathe de- 
posed That he saw the said Indians who were y*® Grantors of y°® 
Land herein mentioned signe & Deliver this Deed of Sale to 
y° use of the Inhabitants of said Towne of waymoth and theire 
posteritie fforever : And that he was present when James Parker 
and the Rest of the witnesses Subscribed their Names hereunto : 

Taken upon oath the Day & yeare aboue written before me 
William Torrey appointed to Administer oathes by the Gen" 
Court. 

Lib: 13" page 349 & a 

Entered with the Records of the County of Suffolke for Deeds. 
10% July : 1685 

Tiga Atteste Is? Apprnaton, Clke.” 


254 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


APPENDIX C. 


[PaGE 29.] 


Tue following from the town records must have 
been compiled not earlier than Oct. 26, 1642, the date 
of the death of William Fry, whose daughters are named 
among the property owners, and May 21, 1644, the date 
of the deed of Thomas Dyer to Thomas Bayley, con- 
veying a grant of the property described as belonging 
to him. There is reason to believe that the original 
record was made by Rey. Samuel Newman: — 


THE LAND OF Epwarp BATE 


Tenn akeres of uppland in the East field first granted to 
others Gould now in possession of Edward Bate 
bounded on the East with a lot of Robert Randoll on the 
west with a Cedar swampe on the north with Jeffry Staples 
lot on the south with Nathaniel Addames his lot 

ffower Akerss first granted to Will Smith now in the pos- 
session of Edward Bate bounded on the East & north by a 
swampe on the West by a highway on the South by m* New- 
manes lot 

Eyght akers upon the plaine three acres of it first giuen to 
John Upham 3 acres to William ffrie two acres to John Whit- 
marsh now in the possession of Edward Bate bounded on the 
East wh Nicholas Whites lott on the West wh the hiway 
on the north wh the trayning greene on the South wh a swamp 

ffower acres of Swamp 2 acres of it first giuen to m™ William 
Jeffereyes and 2 acres to Richard Siluester bounded on the East 
with Richard Adames his lot on the West with his owne lot on 
the North with m™ Newmans swampe on the South with the 
Wach house Hill 

On acre of Salt marsh first giuen to William Richards now in 
the possession of Edward Bate bounded on East with m*™ Glou- 








APPENDIX 0. 255 


eres marsh on the west with m™ Newmans marsh on the north 
with Nicholas Phillipes marsh on the South by the common 

Halfe an acre of fresh marsh giuen to Edward Bate bounded 
on the East with the greate Swampe on the west with m* 
Gloueres on the north with the high way on the South with 
Ralph Shepperds lot Giuen to Edward Bate halfe an acre of 
marsh upon grape Iland. 


THE LAND OF JOHN ALLIN 


five acres on the plaine first granted to Thomas Applegate 
bounded on the East by a lot of Joseph Shawes on the 
East & South with on the West by Ralph Allins lot the sea 
on the north two acres at the same bounded with the sea 
Eyght acres on the wester necke the land of Henry Kingman 
on the East Thomas Holbrooke on the west the common on 
the north first granted to George Allin Two acres and a quarter 
twelve Rod of meddow in the Wester neck first giuen to 
George Allin bounded on the East with the marsh of Richard 
Siluester on the west with the marsh of William ffrie the 
sea on the north the land of Henry Kingman on the South 


THE LAND OF JOSEPH SHAW 


Six acres in the Wester neck 3 acres of it first giuen 
to John Berstow buting upon the sea East and north 
the land of John King on the South the other 3 acres first 
granted to Richard Porter the former 3 acres adioyning on 
the west and the land of John Allin on the north the sea 
on the east Ralfe Allines land on the South Three acres upon 
King Oke hill first granted to John Whitmarsh Richard Addames 
land on the East John Reades on the west the highway on the 
north the land of John Harding on the south 


THE LAND OF WALTER HaRrRIS 


An acre and a halfe in the west ffield first giuen to 
Robert Louell bounded on the north by the land of John 
Whitman on the East by the streete on the south by the 
land of Robert Louell on the west by the land of Thomas 
Doget Eyght acres lying in Harrises Raing first giuen to 


256 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


Walter Harris being a tryangle bounded on the East by a 
swampe on the south by the land of John Upham and on the 
west by aswampe Eyght acres in the mill furlonge first given 
to him the saied Walter Harris bounded on the East by the land 
of Richard Siluester on the west by the land of Thomas Rider 
on the south by the land of Phillip Reade 


THE LAND oF NICHOLAS WHITE 


ffower acres upon the plaine 3 acres first giuen to 
Steephen ffrench the other first giuen to John Whitmarsh 
the land of John Ozborn on the East the land of Edward 
Bate to the west the trayning greene on the north the 
swampe on the south flive acres upon the plaine 3 acres of it 
first granted to William Smith and two acres to John Rogeres 
the lane that ledeth to the trayning greene on the East the 
land of Nicholas Phillipes on the west the trayning greene on 
the north Nicholas Phillips on the south an acre and halfe the 
swampe on the East the land of Edward Poole on the south the 
high-way on the west 

an acre of salt marsh first granted to William Richards the 
marsh of m™ Glouer on the East of Nicholas Phillipes on the 
west and north the necke on the south fower acres in the swampe 


THE LAND OF JOHN HOLLESTER 


Two acres and halfe in the west ffield first granted to 
William Howland bounded on east west and south by the 
hiewayes and on the north by the land of Edward Smith 
ffower acres in Harrises Rainge first granted to William 
Howland bounded on the East by the highway on the West 
against a little Swampe on the north by the land of William 
Carpenter on the South the land of Thomas Clifton on the north 


THE LAND OF JOHN BURGE 


Two acres in Harrises Rainge first granted to Mesechill 
Barnard buting on the East upon a little swampe on the west 
upon a swampe the land of m™ Webb on the south of John 
Upham on the north 


APPENDIX 0. 257 


THE LAND OF AINGELL HoLLARD 


ffive acres in the East ffield first granted to him bounded on 
the East by the land of Thomas Rawlines on the west by the 
millway William Read on the North and Thomas Streame on 
the South 

Eyght acres in the East ffield first granted to Widow Streame 
Nathaniel Addames his meddow on the East the mill waie on 
the west on the north with a lot that was granted to Joane 
Richardes and Steephen ffrench on the south 

Three acres granted first to Joane Richardes the mill waie on 
the west and lying north and south Two acres and halfe of 
medow at hocklie at first granted to Clement Brigges bounded 
with a creek and Edward Bennetes marsh on the East and 
Steephen ffrench his lot on the west 

Twenty three acres amongst the great lotes bounded with the 
hingam line one the East and south the marsh of m* Richards 
on the north wm’ Richards his lot on the west 


THE LAND OF WILLIAM READE 


Eyght acres and halfe in the East field at first giuen to him 
the land of Thomas Rawlines on the East of Richard Addames 
on the west the swampe on the north the Streete on the south 

EKyght acres and halfe in the Wester neck the land of Richard 
Siluester on the East of Edward Smith on the west the High- 
waie that ledeth to Siluesteres on the north the commons on 
the south Twoacres of salt marsh in the westerneck the marsh 
of m™ Jener on the East of Thomas White on the west the land 
of William Richardes on the north the Creek on the south 
Sixteene acres amongst the greate lotes bounded on the East 
with a greate pond by the commons on the west 


THE LAND OF EpwarRD POOLE 


ffive acres one the plaine the streete on the East the land 
of Ralph Allin on the west of Richard Rowland on the north 
and of Richard Bowin on the south 

Two acres at the steping stone the swampe on the East the 
highway on the west the land of Ralph Shepherd on the north 
of m* Newman on the south 


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258 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


THE LAND oF RicHARD ADDAMES 


Nine acres in the East field first granted to him bounded on 
the East with the land of William Reade on the west with the 
land of Richard Newberry the swampe on the north the streete 
on the south 

Fowerteene acres on the wester neck first granted to him 
bound on the East with the land of Edward Smith on the west 
with the land of William Smith on the north with a Swampe 
one the south with the commons 

An Acre of Salt Marsh at the wester neck first granted to 
William Reade and an acre and halfe of Upland first granted 
to m’ Busley bounded on the East by the land of Thomas 
White and of William Richardes on the west with the marsh 
of Thomas holbrooke on the north with the land of William 
Richardes on the south by the Creek that Runes to monotticot 

An Acre of Marsh at burying [land the land of Robert Martin 
on the west with the sea on the north with the marsh of m* 
Parker of Robert Martin on the south 

Three acres of fresh Marsh the marsh of John Harding and 
Stephen ffrench on the East the medow of Edward Smith on the 
west the common on the north and south 

An Acre on King oke hill the land the hiewaies at the East 
and north endes the land of John Harding and Joseph Shaw on 
the north and of Thomas Dyer on the south 

Twenty fower acres amongst the greate lotes buted on the 
East with a greate pond on the west with the common with 
the lot of Richard Siluester on the north with the lot of William 
Smith on the south 


THE LAND OF ROBERT RANDOLL 


Two acres in the East field first granted to John Gurny 
bounded on the East with the land of Edmond hart the hiewaie 
on the west the land of Robert Cooke on the north and of 
Nathaniel Addames on the south 

Two acres more in East field first giuen to Edward Bate 
bounded on the East with the land of Edmond Harte with the 
land of Robert Cooke on the west Nathaniel Addames on the 
north and his owne on the south 


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APPENDIX 0. 259 


Three acres more in the East field first granted to James 
Rogeres bounded with the sea on the East Nathaniel Addames 
on the west and south the sea on the north 


THE LAND OF WiLuIAM Pirty 


Ten acres in the Ester neck first granted to him bounded with 
James Ludines land on the East of Nicholas Phillipes on the 
west a Swampe on the north and a hieway on the south 

three acres of Salt-marsh lyinge neare the mill bounded with 
the land of Joseph Torrey on the north the mill on the south 
the mill lot on the west Five Acres of Upland at london Berge 
bounded on the East with the Sea the land of m' Torrie on the 
west of m™ Waltham on the north and the Round marsh on the 
south 

THE LAND OF JOHN BURRELL 

Three acres in the Rainge first granted to Nicholas Norton 
bounded with a highwaie on the East the land of Thomas Baylie 
on the west the land of Hugh Roe on the north and the land 
of Goodman Hughes on the south 

An Acre in King oke hill the land of Thomas Dyer on the East 
and north the hiewaie on the west the land of mt Webb on the 
south 

Two acres in the Rainge first granted to m™ Robert Jeffery 
bounded on the East with a hiewaie on the west with a swampe 
on the north with a hiwaie on the south with the land of Thomas 
Clifdon 

THE LAND OF SAMUEL NEWMAN 

Twenty fower acres in the East ffield thirteene acres of it 
was first granted to Henry Kingman Seuen of it to William 
Smith and fower acres first to William Richardes all of it 
together bounded on the East with a Highway by the meeting- 
house the Jand of Robert Martin on the south salt marsh on the 
west the common on the north 

Two acres of salt marsh first granted to Henry Kingman 
bounded on the East with a swampe on the west with the high- 
way the land of Edward Poole on the North and the land of 
Edward Bate on the south 

Two acres of salt marsh one of them first granted to Henry 
Kingman the other to Thomas White bounded at the East with 


260 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


the land of Nicholas Phillipes and Edward Bate westward with 
a bridge south with the comon northward with the land of Rich- 
ard Bowin 

Two acres of swampe bounded on the East with the East 
fieldes on the west with his owne salt marsh on the south with 
the swampe of Edward Bate 

Twenty acres of upland first granted to Henry Kingman 
bounded on the south a greate pond on the north with John 
Randes marsh 

Twenty acres of upland and swampe giuen him by the Towne 
bounded on the East with the land of William Hewes the land 
of Thomas Holbrook on the west the Comons on the south 
Harrises Rainge on the north 

Two acres of wood in a great swampe neere my Howse first 
giuen Edward Bate now taken by way of exchange of him for 
two acres in the Swampe aforesd aboue specyfied 


THE LAND OF JOHN TAYLOR 


Three acres in the plaine first granted to Robert Louell the 
highwaie on the East the land of William Brandon on the south 
the land of John ffussell on the north 


THE LAND OF RicHARD NEWBERY 


Two acres in the East field first giuen to Richard Addames 
bounded on the East with the land of Richard Addames on the 
west and south with the highwaie on the north with the wach- 
house hill 

flive acres in the wester neck first giuen to m™ Hull bounded 
on the East with the land of m™ Jener on the west with the 
land of John Whitman on the north to the Sea on the south 
with m' Jeneres marsh 


THE LAND OF THomAsS CLIFTON 


Six acres in the west field fower acres first granted to 
m* Robert Jefferie and two acres first granted to William Hues 
bounded on the East with the highway on the west with a 
swampe on the north with the land of John Burrell on the 
south with the land of John Holester 

Two acres in Harrises Rainge first giuen to Samuel Butter- 


APPENDIX C. 261 


‘worth bounded on the East with a swamp on the west with a 
swampe on the north with the land of Jacob ffrench on the 
south with the land of William Carpenter 


THE LAND OF THOMAS FFOSTER 


Three acres in the East ffield first granted to John Allin 
bounded on the East with Jeffery Staples land on the west with 
the land of Edward Bate 


THE LAND OF WILLIAM READE 


Tenn acres in the East ffield three acres first granted to 
Robert Stone three acres of it to George Allin fower acres to 
Richard Knight bounded on the East with the land of Nathaniel 
Addames on the west with the streete on the south with the 
land of Aingell holard on the north with the land of Thomas 
ffoster 


THE LAND OF RatpH ALLIN 


Twenty acres flirst granted to George Allin lying in the 
Easterneck and three acres meddow adioyning to it bounded on 
the East with the land of Richard Bowin on the west with the 
sea on the north with the land of Edward Poole on the south 
with the sea 

An acre of salt marsh first granted to Thomas White bounded 
on the east with the highwaie on the west with his owne marsh 
on the north with the highwaie on the south with the sea 

fower acres that was first granted to Thomas Rider. bounded 
on the east with the land of Joseph Shaw on the west with the 
land of m™ Glouer on the north and south with the sea 

Two acres of salt marsh first granted to George Allin 
bounded on the east with the marsh of Robert Martin on the 
west to the sea on the north to the marsh of m™ Parker on the 
south to the marsh of Richard Addames 


THE LAND OF Epmonp Hart 


Eleuen acres in the East field first granted to him bounded 
on the East and west with highwaies on the north with the land 
of Thomas Rider on the south with the land of James Snooke 


262 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


Three acres in Kingoke hill first granted to Aingell Hollard 
bounded on the East with a highwaie on the west with the land 
of John Upham on the north with the land of Thomas Rider on 
the south with the land of mt Parker Eyghteene acres amongst 
the greate lotes bounded on the East with the great pond on the 
west with the comon on the north with the land of Robert Louell 
on the south with the land of Thomas Rawlines 


THE LAND OF JAMES SMITH 


Three in the Easterneck bounded on the East with the high- 
waie the land of Clement Brigges on the west on the north with 
the sea on the south with the land of William Hayard 

One acre of salt marsh bounded with the sea on the East the 
sea on the west the land of William Pitty on the north of 
James Ludin the south 


THE LAND OF JOHN FFUSSELL 


Twelve acres and halfe in the plaine six acres of it first 
giuen to Robert Able three acres of it first giuen to Thomas 
Holbrooke half an acre first giuen to m™ Barnard and the 
other three acors first giuen to William Newland all of it 
bounded on the East with the land of Robert Abell Clement 
Weauer and m' Barnard on the west with the highwaie on 
the north with a lot of ground giuen to m™ Barnard on the 
south to the land of John Taylor 


THE LAND OF RICHARD WEBB 


Two acres in the East field bought of m™ Robert Lenthall 
bound on the East with the land of the Widow Streame on the 
north with m*™ Newmanes land on the west with the land of 
Robert Martin on the south with the highwaie 

Two acres in Kingoke hill first giuen to Thomas Rawlines 
bounded on the east with m" Parkeres land on the west the 
highwaie on the north with the land of John Upham of Phillip 
Reades on the south 

five acres in Harrises Rainge 3 akres of it first giuen to 
Masachiell Barnard two of them first giuen to John Butterworth 
bounded on the east with a highwaie on the west with the land 
of John Holester on the north with Jacob ffrench his land 


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APPENDIX OC. 263 


An acre and three quarteres in Kingoke hill bounded on the 
East with land of Thomas Dyer on the west and south with 
highwaie on the north with the land of John Burrell 

Six acres and half bought of John Dunford lying in mill field 
bounded on the east with land of John Harding on the west 
with a highwaie on the south with the land of Dauid Mattoke 

Three acres of ffresh marsh adioyning to the marsh of Phillip 
Reade on the south west side 


THE LAND OF NicHoLtas NorRTON 


Six acres in mill ffield 3 of them first giuen to Richard 
Addames 3 to Richard Siluester bounded on the east with the 
land of m™ Waltham m! Richards and Matthew Pratt on the west 
of John Gill on the north on the south with the land of Simon 
Whitmarsh 

Five acres adioyning to John Whitmanes greate lot bounded 
on the east with the mill lot on the west to m™ Parkeres lot of 
James Naish to the north of John Whitman on the south 


THE LAND OF JOHN HARDING 


Fower acres in the west field two of them first granted to 
Thomas Houlbrooke and the other two to John Whitmarsh 
bounded on the East with the high waie on the west with the 
land of Thomas Doget on the north with the land of Robert 
Louell on the south with the land of Edward Smith 

ffive acres on Kingoke hill first granted to John Whit- 
marsh bounded on the East with the land of Joseph Shaw 
on the west with the highway on the north with the land of 
Phillip Reade on the south with the land of Richard Addames 
Six acres in the mill field first granted to himselfe bounded on 
the East with the land of James Naish on the west with a 
swampe on the north with the land of James Naish on the 
south with the land of mt Webb and Dauid Mattoke 

Two acres and halfe off fresh Marsh first granted to Joha 
Whitmarsh bounded on the East with the marsh of Henry 
Addames on the East of Richard Addames on the west the 
comon on the north and south 

Halfe an acre of fresh marsh more adioyning to it which hee 
gaue to John Whitmarsh the sonn of the aforesaid John 
Whitmarsh 


264 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


THE LAND OF NICHOLAS ONESIPHERUS and RicHARD WHITMARSH 


Nine acres in the westerneck first giuen to John Whitmarsh 
their father deceased bounded on the swampe in the west with 
the marsh of John Allin on the north with a swampe on the 
south with the land of John Allin 


THE LAND OF SIMON WHITMARSH 


ffower acres and halfe in the mill field 2 acres and halfe 
first granted to John Whitmarsh bounded on the East with a 
swampe on the west with the land of William Brandon on the 
south with the mill waie on the north with the land of Nicholas 
Norton the other two acres first granted to John Harding 
adioyning to the six acres of the saied John Harding bounded 
on the East and north with the land of James Naish 


THE LAND oF RicHARD WALING 


ffower acres and halfe on the Back side of King oke hill 3 
acres of it first granted to John Upham and the other acre and 
halfe to himselfe bounded on the East with the commons on the 
west with the mill path on the north with the land of George 
Allin on the south with the land of William Brandon 

Three acres in mill field first giuen to him the land of Jacob 
ffrench on the East the comon on the west the land of Hugh 
Roe on the north of m* Parker on the south 

on quarter of an acre in the west ffield first giue to m* Hull 
bounded on the east with the highwaie on the west and north 
with the land of John Whitman on the south with the land of 
Jefferey Staple 


THE LAND OF CLEMENT BRIGGES 


Tenn acres in the Easter neck first granted to him bounded 
on the East with a swampe on the west with the land of James 
Britton on the north with the sea on the south with the land of 
Clement Weuer 

Two acres upon the neck at the fferry bounded with the land 
of Jobn Allin and the sea 


APPENDIX C. 265 


THE LAND OF GEORGE ALLIN 


Three acres in Kingoke hill first granted to Robert Louell 
bounded on the north with the land of Hugh Roe on the south 
with the land of Richard Waling 


THE LAND OF MatrHew Pratt 


Twenty acres in the mill field twelve of them first giuen to 
Edward Bate and Eyght acres to himselfe all of it bounded on 
the East with the land of John Gill on the west with the land of 
Richard Waling on the north with the Rocky hill on the south 
with the land of Richard Addames and Thomas Baly 

Also Eighteene ackers of upland first giuen to Edward 
Bennet now in the possession of mathew pratt bounded on the 
east with the mill River on the west with John Whitmans lot 
on the north with y® mill ground on the south with the pond 


THE LAND OF WILLIAM TORREY 


Twenty acres sixteene of upland and fower of salt marsh first 
giuen to Capt Sillanoua bounded on the east with the land of 
m” Henry Waltham on the west with the high waie on the north 
with the land of James Ludden on the south with his owne land 
bought of Richard Porter 

Eyght acres of upland first giuen to Richard Porter bounded 
on the east with land of William Pitty on the west with a 
swampe on the north with his owne aboue mentioned on the 
south with the land of m' Jefferey 

Three acres first giuen him by the towne bounded on the 
east with the back river on the west with the land of m" Jefferie 
on the north with the land of William Pitty on the south with 
m’ Jenerers marsh 

Three acres of salt marsh lying on the backer river first giuen 
to Richard Porter bounded on the East with the land of Aingell 
Hollard on the west with the River on the north with the land 
of m™ Richards on the south with the land of mt Henry Waltham 

Sixteene acres lying aboue the mill first giuen to Capt Silla- 
noua on the east with on the west with the back River on 
the north with on the south with 

Two shares and halfe upon the Easter neck containing by 











266 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


estemat twenty five acres first giuen to m™ John Buslem bounded 
on the East with the land of Nicholas Phillipes on the west 
with the land of James Ludden on the north with the bay 
on the south with the back River 

An acor of salt marsh first giuen to m™ John Buslem bounded 
on the East with the back riuer on the west with his owne on 
the north with the land of John King and James Smithes marsh 
on the south with m" Jefferies marsh 

Twenty and fower acres of upland upon Round Iland fower- 
teene acres of it first giuen to Thomas Holbrooke ten acres 
giuen to John Kinge bounded on the East with the land not 
yet giuen on the west north and south with the sea 


THE LAND OF Putuuie READE 


flive acres upon Kingoke hill two acres of it first giuen to 
himselfe three acres to John Reade on the East with the land 
of John Read on the west with the high waie on the north with 
the land of m™ Webb on the south with the land of John Harding 

ffower acres of ffresh marsh two acres first giuen to John 
Read and two acres to himselfe bounded on the East with a high 
waie on the west with a swampe John Reads marsh on the north 
m™ Webs and Thomas Rawlins marsh on the south 


THE LAND OF JOHN ROGERES 


ffower acres in the west flield first giuen to himselfe bounded 
on the East with the land of Thomas Doget on the west with 
the high waie and on the south: on the north with John Whit- 
mans salt marsh 

Nine acres in the wester neck first giuen to Aingell Hollard 
bounded with a high waie on the East the Comon on the west 
with Richard Siluesteres land on the north and the land of 
Edward Benet on the south 

One acre of salt marsh near burying Iland bought of mt 
Newman bounded on the East with Thé Whites marsh on the 
west with m™ Parkeres on the south with the land of Robert 
Martin on the north with the sea 

Also twenty pole or thereabout be it more or less Lying at 
the head of the mill Brook for a watering place bounded on the 


APPENDIX C. 267 


south side wt? a white oak on the marsh with his owne Land & 
taking in the River on the East on the west with the land of 
Widdow Oatis 


THE LAND OF ARTHURE WARREN 


Tenn acres of upland and swampe first giuen to himselfe 
bounded on the East with m™ Gloueres marsh on the west and 
south with m™ Barnardes land on the north by the sea 

Tenn acres in the mill field giuen to himselfe bounded on the 
East and south with Hingam line on the north with the land of 
Walter Harris the comon on the west 


\ THE LAND OF RICHARD SILUESTER 


Twenty and six acres upon the Wester neck fowerteene of 
them first giuen to himselfe and twelve to John Upham bounded 
on the East with a high waie the comon on the west the land of 
Wm Reade on the north the land of John Rogeres on the south 

ffower acres first giuen to himselfe aboue the mill bounded on 
the East with Hingam line on the west with the land of John 
Rogeres on the north with the land of m* Torrey on the south 
with the south with the land of Walter Harris 

Two acres of salt marsh first giuen to himselfe bounded with 
m' Jeners land on the East John Allines on the west the Riuer 
on the north the comion on the south 


THE LAND OF JOHN STAPLE 


Six acres in the plaine three acres of them first giuen to mt‘ 
Barnard and three of them to Henry Kingman bounded on the 
East with the land of Robert Able on the west and north with 
the highwaie William Brandon the south Three acres in the 
East ffield first giuen to himselfe the land of William Read on 
the East the land of Edmond Hart on the west the land of m’ 
Jeffery on the north and of m* Parker on the south 


THE LAND OF JOHN WHITMAN 


Twenty and on acres in the west field fifteene of them upland 
and six acres of salt marsh first giuen to m™ Hull bounded on 
the East with a high waie on the west and north with a creeke 
on the south with the land of Walter Harris 


268 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


ffower acres and halfe on the westerneck bounded on the 
East with a creeke on the west with medow on the west the land 
of Thomas Streame on the north and the land of m™ Jener on 
the south 

Eleuen acres in Harrises Rainge first giuen to himselfe the 
land of William Hues on the East a swampe on the west the land 
of Hugh Roe on the north and of m™ Newman on the south 

Sixty acres by the great pond first giuen to m™ Hull bounded 
on the East with the land of William Carpenter on the west 
with a swampe and the pond on the south 

ffower acres of ffresh marsh first giuen to m* Hull bounded with 
a creeke on the East and Edward Benetes marsh on the south 


THE LAND OF WALTER COOKE 


ffower acres in the Westerneck first giuen to Thomas Baylie 
bounded on the East with the land of Thomas Holbrook on the 
west with the land of John Holbrook and Zakery Reades on 
the west the highway on the north the comons on the south 

An acre upon Round Iland first giuen to Thomas Holbrooke 
bounded on the East and west with the sea on the north and 
south with m* Torries land 


THE LAND OF Epwarp SMITH 


ffive acres and halfe in the west field three acres and halfe 
first giuen to Richard Porter and two acres to Robert Louell 
the streete on the East the highwaie on the west the land of 
John Harding on the north and of John Holester on the south 

Ten acres and halfe in the westerneck Eight acres and 
halfe first giuen to William Reade and two acres first giuen to 
Richard Addames bounded on the East and west with the comon 
on the north with the land of Richard Addames on the south 
with the land of William Reade 

Three acres of ffresh marsh first giuen to Steephen ffrench 
bounded on the East with Richard Addames marsh the comons 
on the west and north the fresh Brooke on the south 


THE LAND OF Henry KINGMAN 


Twelue acres in the westerneck first giuen to John Whitmarsh 
bounded on East with the land of Nicholas Onisepherus and 


APPENDIX ©. 269 


Richard Whitmarsh on the west with the land of John Allin the 
sea on the north the land of Thomas Holbrooke on the south 

Three acres in the westerneck first giuen to William Smith 
bounded on the East and south with the land of William Smith 
on the north with the land of Thomas White on the south with 
the comon 

Three acres first giuen to Edward Poole bounded on the East 
with a highwaie on the west with the land of William Hayard, 
on the north with the land of Enoch Hunt on the south with the 
land of Ralph Allin 

ffower acres first giuen to George Allin bounded on the East 
with a high waie on the west with the sea his owne land on on 
the north and the land of Ralph Allin on the south 

Three acres in the Easterneck of salt marsh first giuen to m" 
Buslem bounded on the north with the bay on the south with 
the back Riuer 

Two acres of salt marsh neere burying [land first giuen to 
Aingell Holard bounded on the East and south with the land of 
Robert Martin on the west with the creeke on the north with m* 
Parkers marsh 

Six acres in the westerneck first giuen to Samuel Butterworth 
bounded on the East with the comon on the west with a 
highwaie 

THE LAND OF THomAs DYER 


Seuen acres on Kingoke hill six acres of it first giuen to 
Thomas Holbrooke the other acre to Robert Louell bounded on 
the East and west with two high waies on the north with the 
land of Richard Addames on the south with the land of Robert 
Louell and John Burrell 

Two acres of swampe first giuen to John Upham bounded on | 
the East with a highway and on the north on the west with the 
comons one the south with the land of James Naish 


THE LAND OF NATHANIEL ADDAMES 


Eleuen acres in the East field fower of them first giuen to 
Mathew Pratt three of them to the wife of Thomas Clapp and 
fower to William Brandon bounded on the East with the land 
of Robert Randoll and Robert Cooke on the west with the land 


270 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


of James Snooke on the north with a swampe on the south with 
a highwaie 

Eleuen acres and a quarter in the East field eyght acres of it in 
upland and three acres and quarter of saltmarsh first giuen to 
Clement Brigges bounded on the East with the land of Robert 
Randoll on the west with the land of Aingell Holard on the 
north on the north with the land of William Reade on the south 
with the comon 

Three acres giuen him in lieu of a highwaie bounded on the 
East with the back Riuer on the west with the land of Aingell 
Hollard on the north with his owne land on the South with the 
land of Steephen ffrench 

Two acres in the East ffield first giuen to John Gurnie 
bounded on the East with the land of Jeffery Staple on the 
west with the land of Robert Randoll on the north with the 
Ceder swampe on the south with the highwaie 

Eighteene acres in the East flield first giuen to m™ Buslem 
fiufteene of it giuen first to m™ Parker bounded on the East with 
a pond adioyninge to Edmond Hartes lot on the west with the 
land of m’ Jefferies on the North with the land of John Staple 
on the south with a plot of comon 


THE LAND OF WILLIAM SMITH 


Eyghteene acres in the westerneck first giuen to himselfe 
the comones on the East and west The land of John Tomson 
and John Holbrook on the north the land of Richard Addames 
on the south 

Two acres of salt marsh bounded on the East with the Creeke 
on the west with William Richards marsh Robert Martines land 
on the north 

Thirty acres in the greate lotes the land of Richard Addames 
on the East of Steephen ffrench on the west the comon on the 
north and the greate pond on the south 


THE LAND OF THomAs WHITE 


ffowerteene acres in the westerneck first giuen to himselfe 
bounded on the East with a highwaie on the west with the 
comon on the north with the land of Thomas Dunn on the south 
with the land of John Holbrooke and John Tomsonn 


APPENDIX C. 204 


On acre of of salt marsh wich was first giuen to William 
Reade bounded on the East with William Reads marsh of Rich- 
ard Addames on the west the sea on the north m™ Jeneres up- 
land on the South 

On acre of salt marsh by burying Iland first giuen to mt New- 
man bounded on the East to mt Newmans land on the west with 
a creeke on the north with the marsh of Ephraim Hunt of John 
Rogeres on the south 

Twenty and one acres amongst the greate lots first giuen to 
himselfe bounded on the East with the land of Thomas Jener 
senior of Thomas Doget on the west the comions on the north 
the pond on the south 

Also one acre be it more or less bounded. with the highway 
on the south & the mill Creeke on the north the land of Robte 
Randall on the east & the way to the mill on the west as it is 
marked out which sd land was allowed him in Consideration of 
land layd out for the Country highway pvided Deacon Rogers 
Rogers haue liberty to come through with his haye he setting 
vp the fence agayne 


THE LAND OF JAMES LUDDON 


Six acres first giuen to himselfe bounded on the East with 
a highwaie on the west with a plot of comon to the Easterneck 
on the north to the land of William Pitty on the south 

Three acres of salt marsh first giuen to himselfe bounded on 
the East with m' Jefferies marsh the high waie to the west James 
Smithes marsh on the north and of m* Torrey on the south A 
halfe acre of salt marsh addioyning to the other that hee bought 
of m’ Torrie 


THE LAND OF JEFFERY STAPLE 


Three acres in the East field first giuen to himselfe bounded 
on the East with with the land of Thomas ffoster of Thomas 
Streame on the west of Edward Benet on the north the mill 
path on the south 

Six acres at the farther end of Harrises Rainge first giuen to 
himselfe bounded on the East with the comon on the west with 
the land of m™ Newman on the north with the land of William 
Hughes of John Butterworth on the south 


272 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


Halfe an acre in the west field first giuen to m‘ Hull the streete 
on the East the land of John Whitman on the west and south 
of Richard Waling on the south 


THE LAND OF JAMES PRIST 


On acre in King Oke hill first giuen to Edward Benet bounded 
on the East with the streete that ledeth to the mill James Snookes 
land on the north Edward Benet on the west the land of Thomas 
Rider on the south 

Two acres in the East ffield first giuen to William Hughes 
bounded with the land of Thomas Rider on the East the high- 
way to the west the land of William Hughes to the north and 
south 

THE LAND OF Martin PHILLIPES 


Three acres and halfe first giuen to Thomas White bounded 
on the East with the land of Nicholas Phillipes on the west 
with the land of Richard Bowin the waie on the north and of 
Richard Bowin on the South 

On acre of salt marsh first giuen to William Richards 
bounded with the marsh of Nicholas Phillipes on the west with 
m’ Newmans marsh with the land of Nicholas Phillipes on the 
north and a creeke on the south 


THE LAND OF JOHN FFOSTER 


Two acres and halfe first giuen to John Taylor bounded on 
the East with the land of William Weedon on the west with 
the land of Nicholas Byram on the north with the sea south 
with the land of m™ Glouer 

Two acres upon the plaine first giuen to William Richardes 
bounded on the East with the land of Nicholas Whit on the 
north with the land of Nicholas Phillipes with a swampe on the 
south 


THE LAND OF ANDREW FFORD 
Seuen acres in the East fild first giuen to Masachill Barnard 


on the East with Edmond Hartes land on the west and north 
with the land of m* Jener on the south with the Indianes land 


APPENDIX C. 273 


THE LAND OF MASACHEL BARNARD 


Six acres in the plaine first giuen to Richard Longe bounded 
on the East with the land of Arthure Warren of John ffusell 
on the west the sea on the north and his owne land on the south 

Three acres in the plaine first giuen to Thomas Baylie bounded 
on the East with the land of Clement Weauer on the west and 
south with the land of John ffusell of Arthure Warren on the 
north 

Eight acres in the mill field first giuen to himselfe bounded 
Kast and south with Hingham land on the west with the Comon 
on the north with the land of Walter Harris 


THE LAND OF JAMES SNOOKE 


On acre in Kingoke hill first giuen to Edward Benet bounded 
on the East with the land of m' Parker of James Prist on the 
west of Edward benet on the north 

Three acres in the East ffield first giuen to Edward Sale 
bounded on the East with the land of Nathaniel Addames of 
Edmond Hart on the west a swampe on the north to the streete 
on the south 

Three acres in the mill field the land of Nicholas Norton on 
the East of Thomas Clape on the west a swampe on the south 
the mill foote path on the north 

On acre of salt marsh at the back riuer first giuen to Robert 
Able almost Round with the sea the sedar swampe on the west 
of it 

THE LAND OF RicHAaRD Bowin 


Tenn acres Eyght of them upland two of swampe lying in the 
plaine first giuen to Thomas White bounded on the East with the 
land of Martin Phillipes of Ralph [Allin] on the west of his 
owne on the south a highwaie on the north 

Two acres of upland and salt marsh first giuen to Tho White 
bounded on the East with the comon on the west with the 
land of Ralph Allin on the north with his owne land on the 
south with John Uphams marsh 

Two acors first giuen to John King bounded on the East 
west & north with his owne land and of m™ Newman on the south 


18 


274 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


THE LAND OF WILLIAM RICHARDES 


Nineteen acres and halfe in the westernecke first giuen to m* 
Buslem bounded on the East with the sea the land of Richard 
Addames on the west of Robert Martin on the north of Thomas 
Streame on the south 

Two acres of salt marsh in the same neck first giuen to Wil- 
liam Smith bounded on the East with William Smithes marsh 
with the sea on the west and north and with the land of Robert 
Martin on the south 

ffower acres in the same neck first giuen to himselfe bounded 
on the east & north with the land of Henry Kingman a high 
waie on the south 


THE LAND OF ROBERT TyTUS 


Six acres in the plaine 3 of them first giuen to George Allin 3 
to Arthure Warren bounded on the East with a highwaie on the 
west and north with high waies on the south with the land of 
John Ozborne 

ffower acres on the other side first giuen to James Ludden 
the greate swampe being on the west and south of it 

On acre of ffresh marsh at his dore beinge at the north end 
of the greate swampe 


THE LAND OF EpwarD BENET 


ffive acres in Kingokehill first giuen to himselfe bounded on 
the East with the land of James Snooke with a high waie on 
the west the Pounde on the north the land of Thomas Rawlinges 
on the south 

Twenty and two acres in the westerneck 14" of them giuen 
him by the towne and eight of them first giuen to Aingell Hol- 
lard bounded on the East and west with highwaies on the north 
with the land of John Rogeres of m™ Glouer on the south 

Five acres in the East field 2 acres first giuen him by Towne — 
and 3 acres first giuen to Thomas White bounded on the East 
and north with the land of Nathaniel Addames on the west with 
the land of William Reade of Thomas Rawlinges on the south 

Six acres at hockley first giuen to himselfe bounded on the 


/ APPENDIX C. 275 


East with the Riuer his meddow on the west the comon on the 
south 

On acre of salt marsh at the back riuer first giuen to himselfe 
the riuer on the east and south the land of Steephen ffrench on 
the north of Joseph Torrie on the west 

On acre and a quarter of salt marsh at hocklie bounded with 
his owne land on the East Aingell Holard on the west the riuer 
on the north the land of Steephen ffrench on the south 

On acre of ffresh marsh bounded with John Whitmanes 
marsh on the East of Thomas Holbrooke on the west the 
comones on the north the river on the south 


THE LAND OF Enocn Hunt 


Twenty and two acres in the plaine twenty acres of it upland 
and two acres of salt marsh first giuen to Richard Siluester and 
John Upham bounded on the East with the land of m* Glouer 
on the west and north with the sea the highway and the land 
of m™ Jener on the south 

On acre of salt marsh neare burying Iland bounded on the 
East and south with the land of m™ Newman the sea on the 
west the land of John Upham on the north 


THE LAND OF THOMAS DOGET DURING THE LIFE OF HIS WIFE 
AND AFTERWARDS TO ELIZABETH AND MARY FFRIE THE 
DAUGHTERES OF WILLIAM FFRIE DECEASED 


ffower acres in the west ffield first giuen to William ffrie 
bounded on the East with the land of Edward Smith and John 
Hardinge the land of John Rogeres on the south of John Whit- 
man on the north a highwaie on the south 

Twelue acres amongst the greate lotes bounded on the East 
with the greate pond on the west with the comon the north with 
the land of Thomas White of Robert Louell on the south 


THE LAND OF ELIZABETH AND MARY FFRIE 


Six acres in mill field first given to William ffrie bounded on 
the East with a little pond Steephen ffrench on the north the 
mill Riuer on the west 

Two acres of salt marsh in 2 seuerale pceles in the westerneck 


276 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


on p® bounded with the marsh of John Allin on the East the 
sea on the west m™ Jeneres marsh on the north the land of 
Henry Kingman on the south the other pcell bounded the East 
and south with the land of John Allin the sea on the west 


THE LAND OF Rospert LOUELL 


On acre and a quarter in the west ffield first giuen to him the 
land of Thomas Doget on the west the streete on the East 
walter Harrises land on the north John Hardinges on the south 

Six acres and halfe in Kingoakhill first giuen to himselfe the 
highwaies on the East and west Thomas Dyers land on the north 
Hughes Roes on the south 

fifteene acres neare the mill bounded on the East with Hingam 
boundes on the west with mill Riuer m‘ Jefferies land on the 
north Steephen ffrenches on the south 

Thirtie acres in the greate lottes the pond on the East the 
comon on the west Thomas Dogetes land on the north Edmond 
Hartes on the south 


THE LAND OF JAMES NAISH 


Six acres in mill field giuen him by the towne bounded on 
the east and west with 2 swampes on the north with the mill 
weigh on the south the land of John Harding Six acres in 
the same place 3 acres of it first giuen to Thomas Clap 3 acres 
of it to John Hickes bounded East and west with swampes on 
the north with the mill weigh the land of Jacob ffrench on 
the south 

THE LAND OF STEEPHEN FF RENCH 


Tenn acres in East field giuen to himselfe bounded on the 
East with the land of William Hughes Timothie Wales land 
on the west a swampe on the north a highwaie on the south 

ffowerteene acres in the greate lotes first giuen to John 
Upham bounded on the east with hingam line on the west to 
the mill the land of Robert Louell on the north of Thomas Doget 
south 

Three acres of marsh first giuen to John Upham halfe an acre 
of it at the back River the Rest at the fresh marsh bounded 
East and west with the comons on the north with Thomas Hol- 
brookes marsh on the south with henry Addames Marsh 


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APPENDIX ©. 277 


THE LAND OF JOHN GLOUER 


Hight acres in the plaine 


THE LAND OF THomMAS RAWLINGES 


Three acres in the East ffield first giuen to William Reade 
bounded on the East with the land of Timothie Wales on the 
west and north with the land of William Reade on the south 
with the streete 

Two acres in King oke hill first giuen to Aingle Holard 
bounded on the East with the land of Thd Rider on the west 
with the streete on the north the land of John Upham Edward 
Benets south . 

Three acres in East field first giuen to him bounded on the 
East with land of Aingle Holard on the west with Will Reade 
Edward Benetes on the north Aingle Holards on the south 

On acre of salt marsh in the westerneck bounded on the East 
with Ralph Allines land on the west with m* Jeneres the comon 
on the north the sea on the south 

On acre and halfe of ffresh marsh first giuen to him lying 
amongst the greate lottes 


THE LAND OF JOHN UPHAM 


ffower acres in King Okehill first giuen to himselfe bounded 
on the East with Edmond Hartes land on the west with a high- 
waie m* Webbes land on the north Thomas Rawlinges on the 
south 

Two acres in Harrises Rainge Thomas Cleftones land on the 
East a highwaie on the west the land of walter harris on the 
north of John Burge on the south 

Two acres of salt marsh with a little Island adioyning to it 
called buryinge [land m™ Newmans land on the East the sea on 
west Enock Huntes on the south 

Thirty acres in the greate lottes the pond on the East the 
comones on the west Steephen ffrench on the north 


THE LAND OF THomAs RICHARDES 


flive acres of ffresh meddow lying at the begininge of the 
Hingam boundes first giuen to m* Busley bounded on the north 
with the River and with Aingell Hollards lot on the south 


278 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


Eighteene acres bounded on the East with Hingam boundes 
m’ Jefferies on the West Aingell Hollards on the south 

flower acres in the mill ffield first giuen to John Gurnie 
bounded on the East with Nicholas Norton land on the west 
with Richard Walinges on the north with John Gilles on the 
south with William Brandones 


THE LAND OF WILLIAM CARPENTER 


Two acres in the west ffield first giuen to Thomas Baylie 
the streete on the East the land of Thomas Baylie on the west 
and south by John Hollester on the north 

ffower acres in the mill flield first giuen to Thomas Baylie 
bounded on the East with with the land of m*™ Lenthall the 
High waie on the west Thomas Bailies land on the north John 
Reades on the south 

Eighteene acres neare the flresh pond, first giuen to Edward 
Benet bounded on the East with the mill Riuer on the west 
with the land of m™ Hull the mill and on the north with the 
pond on the south 

Three acres in Harrises Rainge first giuen to m™ Hull bounded 
on the East with a high waie on the west with a swampe on the 
north with the land of Henry Kingman on the south with Sam- 
uele Butterworths land 

ffower acres in Harrises Rainge first giuen to Henry Kingman 

bounded on the East with a highwaie on the west with a 
swampe on the north with the land of Robert Martin on the 
south with the land of Joseph Hull 

ffower acres in Harrises Rainge first giuen to Robert Martin 
bounded on the East with a high waie on the west with a — 
swampe the land of Samuele Butterworth on the north of 
Henry Kingman on the south 

Two acres of ffresh marsh first ginen to William Hughes 
halfe an acre of it lyeth on seueral spotes lying between 
the hucklebury pond and the fresh marsh one acre on the 
west side of the Riuer that cometh into the south side of the 
greate pond and halfe an acre more on the same River mf? 
Jener hauing marsh in the north end of it 


APPENDIX C. 279 


THE LAND OF Ropert Martin 


Ten acres in the East ffield first giuen to Zakry Bicknell 
the land of Richard Webb on the East mt Newman on the north 

flive acres of salt marsh on the south end of the same first 
giuen to Zakry Bicknell 

Two acres of upland giuen to saied Robert Martin adioyning 
to it 

Twelve acres and halfe in the wester neck first giuen to mt? 
Joseph Hull bounded on the north with the sea the land of Wil- 
liam Richards on the south the salt marshes on the east and west 
fifteene acres aboue the mill first giuen to Richard Longe 
bounded on the East with the pond on the west the mill Riuer 
on the west and Mr Torries land on the south 

Twenty and fower acres amongst the greate lottes the land of 
Edward Sale on the north and of William Hughes on the south 

Thirtie acres in the greate lots having the land of Arthure 
Warren on the north and of James Luddon on the south 


The following sales are recorded in the same con- 
nection: — 


Sould by Epwarp Smirx unto THomas Dyxr as followeth 
ffive acres and halfe of land in the west ffield three acres and 
halfe of it was giuen first to Richard porter and two acres of 
it first giuen to Robert Louell and his Dwelling house: barne 
and sellar with the appurtenances there unto belonginge bounded 
on the East & west with highwaies on the north with the land , 
of John Harding: on the south by John Holbrook land 

Allsoe three acres of ffresh marsh which was first giuen to 
Steephen ffrench bounded on the East by Richard Addames 
marsh on the west and north with the comon on the south with 
the fresh brooke 


Sould by THomas Dyer unto THomas Bay te the 21* of the 
3 mouth 1644 his dwellinge house barne and sellar his garden 
and yarde both of them contayning by Estimation on quarter 
of an acre of land being more or lesse bounded on the East with 
the land of Robert Louell on the west with the land of m* 
Webb on the north with the land of saied Thomas Dyer and 
on the south a highwaie 


280 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


Sould by Epwarp Smirx unto Wititram Reape the 25" of 
the 3 month 1644 Tenn acres and halfe of land in the wester 
neck Eight acres and halfe of it was first giuen to him the saied 
William Reade two acres first giuen to Richard Addames 
bounded on the East with the land of the saied William Reade 
on the west with the land of Richard Addames north and south 
with the comons 


Of the one hundred and thirty-eight land-owners 
represented in the above list, seventeen only belonged 
to the Hull company of 1635, and only twenty-two are 
represented to-day by name among their descendants 
in the town. Seventeen of them were in the company 
of Rev. Samuel Newman, who emigrated to Rehoboth 
in 1644. 

LIST OF 1636. 


The earliest list of land-owners, or men to whom 
grants were made in Weymouth (although evidently 
not the original proprietors), now known, is from the 
town records, under date of 1636, probably copied from 
the original record, not now in existence. 


1636 Ata meeting in the Towne of Weymouth the 12" of 
voted. That for the greate lotts, wee should lott unto 
every compleat person [house holder] six—and unto every 
halfe passenger, under twelve years of age to have three to the 
head. By all the freemen here present whose names are under- 
written. And the place to begin is at the lower end of the 
ffresh Pond, [ Whitman’s,] and to run eighty four Rodd either 
wards to the great plantation lotts. 





No. ACRES No. ACRES 
lp pHdwardebennetv.e ance anes 9) Thomas) Railing Wp veuscnts eine 
Cy Wireman BG Gg 5 WES I IG) Mibe dc uns Ge So 45 
Bf Daina Kon ob Glo 6 a CR | bh \ypllinpmn iseeyl 4 5 Boo ok 18 
Ase Mi ener SCnLOM ss) viele elenirennte 18)))12" ‘Rich@sSilyester ys. eaters aremetes 
iy Mbarorey| MAMMA 8 of < 21 13 Rich? Addomes':' 2. ci.) ee 
6. Walliamvltry < . es te de te tenas  e|) 14 William (Sinith on cocoa - 80 
wa SRObeIt uOVell. ou.) ese) eentenod a) elon stepheneHrench)-ue.tteimeMrenmte 21 
8 Edward [Edmond] Hart . . . 18 | 16 John Upham. ..... . 30 


APPENDIX OC. 281 


These are all represented upon the list of property 
owners of 1643, while but five of them are now rep- 
resented by name among the inhabitants of the town. 
Of the above only six belonged to the Hull company of 
the previous year. 


LIST OF 1651. 


The next list of property owners is found upon the 
town records, under date of Nov. 26, 1651, of which the 
following is a copy: — 


The great lots named in the old town Book and formerly 
granted to be laid out on the East side of Fresh Pond next to 
Mrs Richard’s mill joining the small lots formerly laid out but- 
ting on Fresh Pond to run 18 rods towards Hingham line and 
in case any lots run beyond the Pond they shall be upon the 
same Line. 


NAMES OF THOSE TO HAVE LOTS 2 FEBRUARY 1651-2. 


Hidwardi sonle) [Zi Saleen, ce) vo) 2 ie MrvHowland s3y <4 <5 104 ot) an on eal 
Robert Martin. . BS ee iGalc Py MP oie Reel eho hy ORG Molo oo Ue 
RobertiJettery.. 2 « «6 » SetlhomasyAdamsuer smite.) iettann-mLO 
PRePORE NVALTON), ¥ oti oe, 60 tele eA Ohm: Whitmarsh a4. 0 6) 6) spain S120 
William [? James] Nash . .. . 5 | Thomas Holbrook ...... 21 
Zach’? Bicknell. . . 6 |) The, Mill Great lot . 2 «)\.° ., 22/8 
games buddon. ... « « « Bota RUG hy fiat wisp Aol, ince eae ee eee 
John Worster . Seo co 6 o (Selamat, Beow oi Goo a) 2 
Clement Briggs .... ... . 9 | Samuel Butterworth. . ... . 26 
MrrBarnard’) %s) si.) 0,60 6 LOW |p Hdwardsboola sa -i tt sue curesnroi meen 
DONMROersin aos sl 6) os 11 | Thomas Applegate ..... . 28 
Walter Harris: 4, 2s 3 5s s 12) |) Rich™) Porter si) ce yats ous ot ate eo 
Ebenezer Allin. . .. . UB}. || ena SS Gb a. Go wb. og BY 
Widow Butterworth. . ees) 40) |e homaspbayloya eis esti sue omrmaoll 
WalliamaChardst smi +s) Lo) |) Henrys Wittman) src!) elu e 
ABmeGE SH SS) gy .0: 6 20 Jo) OL UGG siya: OL Gb oho Go 


3 February 1651 The following were found by the towns- 
men to be entitled to great lots ordered to be laid out on the 
East side of Great Pond next to Mrs Richards mill to begin 
next to the small lots which are or shall be laid out first, which 
great lots are to but on Hingham line on the East and on the 
great lots on the west, with a sufficient drift-way between the 
two divisions each to pay his own measuring. 


282 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


POUT Staples) fois ie ip me tie) oP LG 
John Gurney vee ofits (tel > ea me 
kaa BG a oe A to bo Alt 
John Harding (5) /5\%.' je 4h, sie) =) OS 
IES a oh Ag Ge mya we 
AOE oy Pic WilhamBrandiny. js ken -aneumeneecO 
Joiterya staplers nti. alMcitcte hie James Nash. i iil sie MOmmeM terse 
JERI Laine Be GG 6) G a DEMO WRG dio 6 d- 6 6 6 2 
ames ROPErs 62) eRe va tis) 890 | der Batesic, dey.) ye) 6) (re toa eneee 
Nicholas Byram sit see, cn ands ) LO homasidor tein cies secu eanre nme 
George Allin'Jun. «2 3s. 2 « 11>] Goodman Weedon.) 5420's) eneneee 
Hnsien Whitman.) s¢a)s +4). -<) 12) | John Holbrooksss 5) sys) e) aenie eS 
Goodman Androsse). «3. 3.18) Jacob Brench 2. 2%." soy. ae ee 
John Kine man! wees ean wet te em 


ACOUCLOISUOM hus a) te) ja sean Bea eye 
MacuLiebrattins) miei: cates 
Widow Streame ..... 
Robert Harlow. . . .« 
WicholasiNorton.0%. SG eraria welts 
Samuel Newman . 


COTM OP OO bm 


LIST OF 1663. 


The next general list is that of 1663, and embraces 
the territory upon the west side of the town, bounding 
upon the Braintree line: — 


Meeting of the Selectmen [of Weymouth] 14 Dec. 1663. 
The number of Acres in each persons lotts in the first Division 
begininge on Brauntry lyne, as followeth. 


No. of No. of No. of No, of 
Acres. Lots. Aores. Lots. 


Mr. Benjamin Gilham ... 8 1} » Walter‘Cook , “sive! ‘s\ 6 ues Ome 


Thomas; White.) . . +s . 14 2. | James uddon) ys i. a) ao ome 
Deacon Phillips ope 13. 3 | John Thompson ... .-. 6 26 
Nicholas Whitmarsh. . . 5 4 ||| Richard.Porters, <5 <4 «) «us elLOmmoa 
Thomas Whitman. . ... 5 bi Andrew ord?) (09 sa) at) GEES 
John Guppiel ess.) itis tue ee Gf) James Nash’ ox (ie Giev) = Wee LOE 
Deacon Rogers. . . ... 14 7 | John Osborme. . yj. «sss eae 
John Staple c= <: ss eis) oo) 6 & |, John Lovill- 3 (a) ee 
Richard Newbury. . . .. 5 9 | Thomas Holbrook .... 10 82 
John Blake. w+ 60 oe: 6) 18 110.) Jotin Burrell)... 05 <1 ' 5 33 
John Shaw. « « + # » 's 4-11 | Henry Kingman ... . 14. 34 
William.Chard. .. . . . 6 12] John King,seaman .... 7 385 
Widow. Read « .-4) s+) 6 105) 13) (Sohn Vining) 1.7 veineu es 5 36 
Thomas Pratt . . .. i 14S Widow ssrigosi.© vo om cre 6 37 
Jamies Smith 0. 5 « « »« 5S) BX:| William Pitty 2.0). s)0) eee 
Jon Whitmarsh) 3%.) en eips yio) elGa! Edward Pooley: <i) cecliniseee Gmc 
Thomas) Streame . . . « « (8 jl? | idward Kingman’s)..) 0.) omnee 
Thomas Dyer"... . 11 18 | Widow Otis . A 5 4l1 
John Comer. . - « » « £, 19']| Samuel Butterworth. = 3 2 (65942 
Mri Thacher.) \.))fe ws to) «pe elige20) >|) Widow Staple vcr stsran von haiuen eee 
Eup ROe went: ie 4) cee, OM eeba| Walliamcbiry is. yee (enn <n OMMEECEEE 
Hlderibater (i... cute tei) 0) Livan (22 1 S)acobtrenéhis. | stvedcet «(sane aeeeeeee 
Stephen French . . +.6 0 12 (23°), John Taylor. 3. 2 4 « 0 «(Gy Uae 


a 


APPENDIX C. 


283 


eee ea pee an 
Widdow Snooke . .... 4 47/1 John Harding... ... 10 68 
Sarah Hunt... .. .. #6 48 / John King, planter . ... 8 G64 
Birnie si. 6 2s) 7) 49°) William Richards’. °) 03.405. 65 
MOMEEIERHOU?.*s/2.°'2 >... 10°. 50°.) Robert Randall (2222-5) 7" “66 
meee rath st. 6%, ess) 10 S)7)| Sohn, Bure ©. ee, RP FGF 
William Holbrook. . . . . 9 52 | Ensign Whitman. . ... 15 68 
Bate rarker >. * oes. 6.3 4 88 || “Widdow Woren> 2/4 ‘77h 5.) 60 
eames Ovi 8a Le ase Bel HA) | ABhomas: Draket.(°4 0.03.) 100. 6 FO 
Mphrarm dunt 64's sss. TOO 55 ||. Giles*Bearh*.)7.)), danse oka ae TT 
Saorme Mays fs oe*) Shes bs ee 560) Thomds Bayley.) tare ust Wt ee 
Ruonss Done 2 sass whe.) (6: )),57 | dohnWratt: 4). Aisne d.. tel eaie C78 
John Holbrook. . . ., ...28 0 58.| Nicholas Byram. <<: 10 74 
hichard Bolter. 3. : . . 6 | 59 | James Smith, Senr. . .. ., 15) 75 
RM RGRMe src ss + (= 6. 60° |: Jonas’ Humphrey). 3) ue 02-76 
MAMICHDETIERE.. 20lalrdts, ‘so, ne./D. (61 |) John Reynolds.’ 3°. Si-saen 0 fee ea? 
MALHGWOEPAGG oie css 14 6B 

End of the first Division. 

The lotts in the 2d Division beginning on Brauntry lyne. 
Maihacherects ci) 6) 2). bee o 1 [o James! Smith, Jr... s)) saeld) 29 
Widdow Oatig;./ 2.0 ce « 15 2 | James Lovill & his mother. . 24 30 
MOTE TAVICR Glia ies) 18 3) Waddow.Snooke: 0 .e).u.-orieel Sano 
WHCOOWPROAG Us: 6 ve ve us. SO 4 | Widdow Warrens. .... 15 382 
Samuel Butterworth. . . . 18 Hal elhomasiDrake:.erem..) 4) eke Lory 33 
William Fry’s children. . . 18 6 | Jonas Humphrey. .... 20 34 
Daley aiane” Cee seh ie i vs, 15 7 edonne Harding es ier. es en sOmeE o> 
Robert Randall .... . 21 8 | Jamesiuddon'<) 3 5. . 245-36 
Eder bate money ats Te. of ce (DL Chi Soatiiciteo Eratoun 6 a als By 
Solnelratipemea: tdi ches Clon LON |e dOhn Rogers) “steaqis -) ee) 420 38 
Hawardehanomanves «lesen tla hls | Walliame¢eyttys. 9.) cy ye Los gdGn | a9 
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James Priest 

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APPENDIX D. 


[PaGE 56.] 


PERSONAL SKETCHES. 


Masor James Humpnrey was one of the pillars of the town, 
a man of intelligence, influence and wealth, for more than sixty 
years, from 1735 to 1797, holding the most important offices in 
the gift of his fellow-citizens, from his first service as constable 
in 1735, until, in 1781, he received a public vote of thanks from 
the town “for more than forty years of faithful service as select- 
man.” He was also many times chosen representative to the 
General Court, and for several terms he represented his district 
in the Council (State senator). He was also a prominent and 
active member of the church and parish. 

He was the son of James and Margaret (Torrey-Humphrey, 
born in Weymouth, June 22, 1711, and a descendant, in the 
fourth generation, from Jonas Humphrey, of Dorchester, who 
settled in that town in 1637, whose son, Deacon Jonas Hum- 
phrey, removed to Weymouth soon after 1650, and at once 
became a leading citizen. 

Major Humphrey was twice married ; first, on Dec. 5, 1734, 
to his neighbor, Ann, daughter of John and Mary (Symes- 
Torrey, a native of “Old Spain,” born May 28, 1715, a de- 
scendant of Capt. William Torrey, the well-known “ Clerk 
of the Deputies.” She died Dec. 17, 1751, having borne him 
six children. 


I. AwNn, born Noy. 19, 1735; died June 24, 1744. 
II. James, born April 12, 1737; died Aug. 20, 1811. 
III. MARGARET, born Feb. 8, 1739; who married Abner Pratt, of 


Weymouth. 

IV. Lucy, born April 13, 1742; who married Col. Asa White, of 
Weymouth. 

V. ANN, born July 6, 1746; who married David Blanchard, of Wey- 
mouth. 


VI. Jostaun, born June 19, 1748; for many years town treasurer. He 
died May 7, 1835. 


286 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


Major Humphrey married, second, March 22, 1753, Silence, 
daughter of Hzra and Silence (Randall- Whitmarsh, born in 
Weymouth, Nov. 22, 1732, and died Nov. 26, 1822, at the age 
of ninety years. Her father was a graduate of Harvard Col- 
lege, and for many years one of the important men of the town. 
The issue of this marriage was : — 


VII. DEBORAH, born Dec. 17, 1753; married Capt. Lemuel Gardner, 
of Boston. 
VIII. ABIGAIL, born Feb. 22, 1756; died Feb. 22, 1824. 
IX. SARAH, born Dec. 14, 1760; died Aug. 10, 1846. 
X. ELIZABETH, born June 13, 1763; married Charles Leach, of 


Boston. 

XI. Susanna, born June 27, 1765; married Samuel Fenno, of 
Milton. 

XII. Capt. NATHANIEL, born June 27, 1765; died Jan. 12, 1825; 
unmarried. 


Major Humphrey died May 2, 1798, in the eighty-seventh 
year of his age. 


Dr. Corron Turts. — For sketch, see “Physicians of Wey- 
mouth,” in Chapter XI., page 190. 


GEN. Sotomon LovEeLL was born in Abington, Mass., June 
1, 1732, the son of David and Mary (Torrey-Lovell. The 
father was a graduate of Harvard College, of 1725, and spent 
a few years in teaching; died young. Gen. Lovell was a de- 
scendant of Robert Lovell, who was a member of the com- 
pany that came to Weymouth in 1635, with Rev. Joseph Hull. 
From his youth he was almost continually in the service of the 
town, in an official capacity, in important positions. He also 
served in the campaign at Lake George, in 1756, as first lieuten- 
ant in the company of Capt. Samuel Thaxter, under Col. 
Richard Gridley. 

During the Revolutionary war he engaged actively in the 
cause of the Colonies, and was promoted from grade to grade 
until he reached that of brigadier-general, in which capacity he 
held the position of commander of the military division of 
which Boston was the centre. He also saw hard and honor- 
able service in the Rhode Island campaign, in 1778, under 
Gen. Sullivan. He was also commander of the land forces 


APPENDIX D. 287 


in the unfortunate Penobscot expedition of the following year, 
which failed from want of co-operation of the fleet, under 
command of Com. Saltonstall, who was cashiered, while Gen. 
Lovell was commended. 

Gen. Lovell was deeply interested in town affairs, in which 
he took an active part, and his efforts and services were fully 
appreciated by his townsmen. 

Gen. Lovell was twice married; first, Jan. 19, 1758, to 
Lydia, daughter of John and Sarah (Hunt-Holbrook, born 
in Weymouth, Sept. 3, 1734, and who died May 21, 1761, 
having had two children : — 


I. Sarau, born April 28, 1759; died July 8, 1759. 
II. Lypra, born May 17, 1761; married Nathaniel Beal, of Quincy. 


Gen. Lovell married, second, May, 1762, Hannah, daughter 
of James and Hannah (Reed-Pittey, born Dec. 8, 1730; died 
July 8, 1795, by whom he had the following children : — 


III. JAMEs, born Jan. 27, 1763; died March 31, 1763. 
IV. SARAH, born April 5, 1764; died Feb. 11, 1782. 
V. HANNAG#, born Oct. 18, 1765; died Dec. 19, 1765. 
VI. HANNAH, born Dec. 7, 1766; died Jan. 14, 1767. 
VII. Dr. JAMES, born Jan. 1, 1768; died April 3, 1820; without 
issue; married Nov. 8, 1798, Mrs. Priscilla Winch. 
VIII. Hannau, born July 6,1771; married Capt. Luther Little, of 
Marshfield, Mass. 
IX. Mary, born April 28, 1773; married Capt. William Wildes, of 
Kennebunk, Me. 


Gen. Lovell died Sept. 9, 1801. 


Deacon NaTHANIEL Baytey, the most important man of his 
day, in the South Parish, in Weymouth, was the son of fev. 
James and Sarah Bayley, born in that parish, Dec. 27, 1731, 
the eighth of a family of thirteen children. His father was the 
first minister of that church and parish, holding that position 
for more than forty years. He was early in public life, and 
throughout its extended term (he died at eighty-two) no 
man in the town was more highly esteemed and trusted. He 
was an ardent patriot during the Revolutionary war, doing 
what he could to further the interests of the Colonies. His 
counsel was listened to and followed, not only in his native town, 
but as well in the conventions of the State, and among the 


288 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


representatives in the General Court. He was a soldier in the 
French war, and afterwards held the rank of captain in the 
militia. He was also an active member of the church, where 
he held the office of deacon. He was engaged in all of the 
important work of the town during the struggle for independ- 
ence, and to no one was the town more indebted for its success 
in that eventful period than to him. He died Dec. 17, 1812. 

He was twice married ; first, Oct. 8, 1754, to Tamar White, 
by whom he had the following children : — 


I. Lypra, born Aug. 1, 1755; married John Thomas. 
II. TAMAR, born Dec. 13, 1756; married Josiah Thayer. 
III. SAMUEL, born Juue 14, 1758; died March 16, 1839; major in 
the militia. 
IV. SARAH, born July 12, 1763; died July 24, 1787. 
V. Mary, born Jan. 26, 1765; married Nathaniel Richards. 
VI. CHARLOTTE, born Sept. 23, 1767; married James Richards, 2d. 
VII. NATHANIEL, born Oct. 4, 1769. 
VIII. ELizaBeTuH, born July 19, 1772. 


Mrs. Tamar died June 20, 1787, aged fifty-eight. 

Deacon Nathaniel married, second, Nov. 1, 1789, Widow 
Deborah Pratt, who died Aug. 31, 1830, aged sixty-eight 
years. 


James Humpnrey, Esq., was the son of Samuel and Sarah 
(Badlam-Humphrey, born in Weymouth, Dec. 5, 1754. He 
was fitted for college at the age of eighteen years, but was pre- 
vented from pursuing his studies on account of the sickness 
and death of his mother. He then began work upon his 
father’s farm, continuing his studies in private, as best he 
could, and soon began to teach. About 1777, he commenced 
teaching in the public schools of his native town, with such suc- 
cess that he was retained in that position for more than a quar- 
ter of a century. He also had large classes of private pupils 
from his own and other towns, and was a competent instructor 
in Latin and Greek as well as in English. For thirty years he 
held the highest offices in the gift of the town, and was one of 
its most useful citizens. He died March 12, 1819. 

He married Nov. 6, 1777, Deborah, daughter of Abel and 
Deborah (Loud-Tirrell, born in Weymouth, July 15, 1753, 
and died Dec. 30, 1842. They had: — 


APPENDIX D. 289 


I. Asa, born Sept. 25, 1778; died Jan. 24, 1861. 
II. Cou. EBENEZER, born Aug. 27, 1781; died June 17, 1861. 
III, LEMUEL, Esq., born May 11, 1784; died Sept. 10, 1857. 
IV. DeEpBorau, born March 25, 1787; married Abiel Wilder, of 
Hingham, and died July 26, 1875. 
V. Lucy, born Dec. 31,1789; married Elisha Cushing, of Hing- 
ham, and died March 21, 1876. 
VI. Levi, born Nov. 13, 1792; died Sept. 20, 1818. 
VI. Susan, born Jan. 15, 1796; died, unmarried, Nov. 5, 1825. 
VIII. Lypta, born Aug. 16, 1798; married Capt. Hervey Cushing, of 
Weymouth, and died Aug. 25, 1847. 


Gen. JAMES LawrENCE Bates. —No historical record of 
Weymouth, however brief, could be called complete that did 
not contain a sketch of Gen. Bates, the most prominent mili- 
tary figure in its history, and one that deserves and holds a 
warm place in the hearts and memories of its citizens. The 
following imperfect account has been gathered from various 
sources, among which are the town records, private letters from 
intimate acquaintances, archives of Reynolds Post, No. 58, 
G. A. R., and the history of the Twelfth Regiment of Massa- 
chusetts Volunteers. It is hoped that this attempt may supply 
a pressing need uutil some competent hand shall furnish a sat- 
isfactory biography : — 

JAMES LAWRENCE Bates, son of Capt. Elijah and Sarah 
( Torrey-Bates, was born in the village of South Weymouth, 
Mass., Aug. 6, 1820. By father and mother he inherited some 
of the best blood of the town, his paternal ancestor being the 
well-known Elder Edward Bates, or Bate, as the name was then 
written, who was one of Weymouth’s earliest settlers. The 
date of his arrival is not known, but as early as 1637 he was a 
prominent citizen and a member of standing in the church. 
He settled in North Weymouth (Old Spain), but soon removed 
to the east part of the town, where he came into possession of 
the Waltham-Richards mill, which remained in the family for 
“near two hundred years. ‘The family has always been a numer- 
ous and influential one in the town. 

In the maternal line his grandfather was Dr. James Torrey, 
for many years a physician of eminence in South Weymouth, 
who traces his descent from Capt. William Torrey, who settled 
in Weymouth in 1640, and at once took a commanding position 


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290 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


among its citizens, which he ever afterwards retained. He was 
for several years a deputy from his town to the General Court, 
where, on account of his learning and ability, he was made 
clerk of his branch of that body. His son, Rev. Samuel 
Torrey, for almost half a century minister of the church in 
Weymouth, was one of the most distinguished ministers of his 
day in America. This family has also been numerous and 
prominent. 

Capt. Elijah Bates, the father of Gen. James L., was a man 
of property and standing, who for many years commanded a 
sailing packet running between Weymouth Landing and Boston, 
in the days when most of the transportation between the two 
towns was done by water conveyance. 

Of the youth of James L., the following from the pen of one 
who knew him intimately through his whole life gives a faithful 
record of his early life and character: “I can simply say that 
in his youth he gave promise of those leading characteristics 
that gave prominence to his after life. He was truthful and 
pure in his conversation, and, unlike so many of his youthful 
associates, he would not use low, vulgar, slangy, and profone 
words. I don’t remember that I ever heard him utter a profane 
oath, while many of his companions were much addicted to 
that vice. 

“He was firm, faithful, and reliable as a friend, and as firm 
and unyielding as an opponent; as fearless and outspoken in 
condemning what he thought to be wrong in those days as in 
after life. 

“As a school-boy he was rather indifferent, and perhaps a 
laggard, until he was fourteen or fifteen years old, when he 
suddenly woke up to the necessity of getting an education, and 
with his determined will, combined with a natural aptitude to 
acquire and retain knowledge, he soon outstripped his compan- 
ions; and, considering his somewhat limited advantages, he 
afterwards laid the foundation for a good and solid education, 
far superior to many whose advantages were much greater. He 
had a very retentive memory, and what he once learned was 
learned for life.” 

His education was gained mostly in the public schools of his 
native town, with a few terms at Monson and Phillips Academy 


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APPENDIX D. 991 


(English school), Andover, and his first employment was as a 
teacher in Weymouth. This he continued for several years, 
teaching in the different schools in the South Parish with great 
success, acquiring a high local reputation as an educator. He 
was very popular, and might have attained a distinguished 
position in that profession but for his proclivity for change, 
which induced him to turn his attention to other employment. 

As a business man he did not succeed, probably for the reason 
that his heart was not in it, and his services in that direction 
were more a matter of necessity than choice ; and yet the larger 
part of his life was spent in manufacturing and mercantile pur- 
suits, in which he was many times engaged, and in which was 
exhibited his love of change. 

His first adventure of a business nature was with Messrs. 
Fogg and Torrey, in the manufacture of boots, about 1846, but 
in which he continued only about one year. He then went into 
company with Benjamin F. White, in the same business, where 
he remained for about two years, when he gave up business for 
himself, and entered the employ of Nathaniel Shaw & Co. as a 
cutter, to which he gave his attention for another year. 

About this time the California fever broke out, and he became 
one of the prime movers in a joint-stock company, which pur- 
chased the ship “Edward Everett,” fitted her out, and sailed for 
the Golden Gate, in 1849. On the arrival of the ship in San Fran- 
cisco, the company started for the mines, leaving him in charge. 
After a time the company disbanded, and the vessel was sold, he 
with a few others being the purchasers. They sailed for home, 
taking on their way a cargo of guano, from the Peruvian Islands. 
On their arrival home, the vessel and cargo were sold, and he 
became thereby the possessor of a few thousand dollars, as his 
share of the profits and investment. 

Upon his return from California he again entered the employ 
of N. Shaw & Co., occupying his former position, where, how- 
ever, he remained but a short time. Hearing that Josiah Reed 
was about to commence manufacturing boots, he entered into 
copartnership with him, under the style of Bates & Reed. 
This connection commenced Sept. 1, 1851, and continued about 
two and a half years, when he became possessed with a desire 
for stock raising in the then West, and, in company with M. D. 


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Spaulding, bought a tract of land in Genesee County, Il., 
whither they went, and began the purchase of stock, but sold 
out before fairly commencing operations. 

After about six months he went into the general store busi- 
ness in South Weymouth, which retained him about one year, 
when he left town and went into business in Boston, with a Mr. 
Safford, where he contented himself for a few months, when he 
formed a new connection in the leather business, with two part- 
ners, under the firm name of Durrell, Bacon & Co. In this he 
continued, with some unimportant changes, until the breaking out 
of the Rebellion in 1861, when the whole current of his life was 
changed, and he found an employment which enlisted his sym- 
pathies, and in which his naturally great abilities found congenial 
development. Hitherto he had labored under restraint, and was 
indifferent as to the result; now he was in love with his occupa- 
tion, and, in his desire to excel, his mental and physical powers 
found their natural bent. 

In April, 1861, the incipient Rebellion came to a head, and 
the attack upon Fort Sumter precipitated the struggle into open 
war. Immediately upon the first call for volunteers by Presi- 
dent Lincoln, a public meeting was called in Weymouth; men 
were at once enlisted and a company formed, which became 
afterwards Company H, of the Twelfth Regiment of Massachu- 
setts Volunteers. Mr. Bates was one of the active spirits in 
this movement, and by his energy and activity did much to pro- 
mote its success. He was chosen its captain, and received his 
commission on the twenty-ninth day of April. 

The company soon went into camp, and began to perfect its 
organization and drill. Capt. Bates, as were his associates, was 
perfectly ignorant of all practical and theoretical knowledge of 
military affairs. Everything must be learned. With his habit- 
ual determination and an ardor kindled by a cause he loved, 
and a congenial employment, he at once set himself to master- 
ing the details of his profession, and day and night, with tireless 
energy, he applied himself to his task. His enthusiasm and 
example excited the ambition of his men, and the reputation of 
the regiment for drill and discipline, afterwards so high, was 
due in no small degree to this fact. 

The weary weeks and months of camp duty, with the endless 


APPENDIX D. 293 


disappointments and delays in entering into active service, 
although so irksome at the time, were not wholly evils, for they 
gave the regiment time and opportunity to perfect itself in that 
which was most essential to its future success; and well did 
Capt. Bates avail himself of these opportunities, for they formed 
the basis of his military reputation. 

Delay followed delay, and it was not until June 12 that 
the regiment was accepted by the United States, although its 
reputation stood second to none for drill and discipline, and 
it was not until July 13 that it left Boston for the seat of war ; 
and once upon the ground a whole year was spent before its 
first blood was drawn, and the regiment established its reputa- 
tion for skill and courage in the field, which made it a favorite 
with all its commanders. 

Capt. Bates early distinguished himself for his coolness in 
action, and the skill with which he performed his duties; and 
he soon attracted the attention of his superiors. His promotion 
was but a question of time, and he was commissioned as major - 
of the Thirty-third Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, on 
the 5th of August, 1862. His regiment was sorry to lose him, 
but the service as well as himself gained by it; and the regi- 
ment itself in the end was no loser, for, on the 9th of September, 
he came back as its colonel, taking command on the 21st. 

He passed through the severe campaigns of 1862-3, and, in 
the fall of the latter year, he was called to the charge of the 
conscript camp on Gallop’s Island, Boston Harbor, having 
been wounded in the neck at the battle of Gettysburg. Here 
he remained for several months, returning to his regiment in 
the spring of 1864, in time to make the advance under Gen. 
Grant, in which he took command of the brigade as its senior 
colonel, and from this time to the end of his term of service 
continued to occupy that position with credit to himself and 
advantage to the service. 

“As a soldier he was an excellent drill-master, thoroughly 
proficient in his duties, infusing energy and thoroughness into 
his command. At the seat of war, he was ever a ‘tower of 
strength’ in the regiment, his dignified bearing, his moral ex- 
ample and influence, and his unswerving integrity gaining for 
him the esteem of all.” 


294 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


He possessed to a high degree the love and confidence of his 
soldiers, and the respect and admiration of his superiors. His 
command was always to be relied upon, and his generals looked 
with confidence upon the result of any duty intrusted to him. 
His regiment or brigade always came into the field in good 
order and in its proper position, and performed the duties 
assigned it as far as it was in the power of skill and courage to 
do so. His reputation as a faithful, reliable officer was not ex- 
celled by any in the service, although many, perhaps, were 
more brilliant. 

He was mustered out of the United States service, July 8, 
1865, and in December, 1868, in recognition of his signal and 
meritorious services during the three years in which he was a 
soldier, and in which he was under fire twenty-eight times, his 
rank as brevet brigadier-general was confirmed. 

“He was a charter member of Reynolds Post, No. 58, 
G. A. R., on its formation, July 14, 1868, and its commander 
till January, 1870, when he was elected commander of the 
Department of Massachusetts, G. A. R., which position he 
held one year; and on retiring therefrom he again became 
commander of Post 58, and continued in office till his decease. ’ 

After the close of the war he was chosen cashier of the South 
Weymouth National Bank, an organization just established, 
and continued in that position for about two years, when he 
retired from it to enter the brokerage business in Boston, with 
Fogg Bros. In this concern he remained but a short time, when 
he formed a new partnership in the same business, under the 
firm name of Bates & Albee. This business was very unfortu- 
nate, and in it he lost all of his property. This was his last 
business venture, and he closed his eventful life on the 11th 
of August, 1875, in the fifty-sixth year of his age, of disease 
contracted inthe army. ‘The news of his death was a matter of 
deep regret and sorrow to his many friends, particularly to his 
old army associates, and his funeral was attended in the Second 
Congregational Church, South Weymouth, by a large concourse 
of friends and the remnant of his old regiment. His funeral 
sermon was delivered by Rev. George F. Stanton, pastor of 
the church, and he was buried under military honors. 

The following resolutions were passed by the Twelfth (Web- 
ster) Regiment Association : — 


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APPENDIX D. 295 


“Whereas, Our beloved colonel, James Lawrence Bates, having accom- 
plished the high purposes of his life, is now mustered out of service 
here, and has responded to roll-call in the ranks of our comrades over the 
border; therefore, 

** Resolved, That we, his surviving comrades, former soldiers of the 
Twelfth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, sharing deeply in the 
sorrow which pervades many hearts at the loss which the country has 
sustained in the death of this loyal citizen and gallant defender of our 
liberties, bear unqualified testimony to his bravery in battle, to his rare 
skill and ability in command of his regiment, and for a long time, in the 
most critical period of the war, of a brigade; to his decision of char- 
acter and great executive ability, to his personal dignity and worth, to his 
kindness of heart, his affable manners, and his consistent devotion to 
truth, virtue, and temperance. 

“¢ Resolved, That these resolutions be placed upon the records of this 
Association, and that a copy be forwarded to the family of the deceased, 
to whom we offer our sincere sympathy and condolence.” 


In his business relations he was invariably affable and 
respectful ; in his social life genial and lovable, while he held 
the respect of all with whom he came in contact. By his 
townsmen he was held in high esteem, and possessed to a 
remarkable degree their confidence. 

Gen. Bates married, first, April 16, 1851, Betsey Dyer, 
daughter of Quincy and Hannah W. (Dyer-Loud, born in 
South Weymouth, Dec. 30, 1829, and died, of consumption, 
Sept. 14, 1853, without issue. He married, second, Jan. 24, 
1856, Mary Jane, daughter of Capt. James and Betsey ( Whit- 
marsh-Tirrell, born in South Weymouth, Sept. 1, 1826. 

Children : — 


J. JAMES WILMOT, born in South Weymouth, Nov. 20, 1856. 
II. ANNIE TIRRELL, born in South Weymouth, May 30, 1858; die 
in South Weymouth, Feb. 25, 1880. 
Ill. Bxrsstz TIRRELL, born in South Weymouth, July 16, 1864. 


296 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


APPENDIX HE. 


[PaGE 56.] 


Tue following is a copy of these resolutions, probably 
from the pen of Dr. Cotton Tufts: — 


To James Humpurey, Esq. 


Sir: We the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town 
of Weymouth are assembled together at a time when the voice 
of distress is heard not only from every part of this province 
but from the continent in general; the burdens we feel and the 
greater we fear force out our groans and lead us to lay before 
you the distresses of our hearts with whom we have intrusted 
our most important Interests. And we have the highest assur- 
ance from your past integrity that no exertion of your abilities 
will be wanting to effect the removal of these evils. When we 
consider the difficulties and encumbrances on trade and decay 
of it brought upon us by some late act of Parliament together 
with the load of debt under which the Province labors we be- 
hold poverty rushing in upon us like an Armed man; but when 
we take under consideration the Stamp Act, with all its conse- 
quences, we can see nothing but misery and ruin in the province 
resulting from the execution of it and a fatal wound to the 
trade and interests of our Mother Country. The King our 
father whom we have always esteemed and reverenced will 
forgive us if we do not consent to our own ruin. We will pre- 
sume upon their clemency that they will not insist upon our 
destruction ; and therefore we do recommend to you decently 
and steadily to oppose any measures in the General Court that 
shall interest the province in any concern with the Stamp Act, 
or stampt papers, either directly or indirectly by the payment 
of any charges that may have arisen on their account, or by 
giving any orders for, or consent to the distribution of said 
papers inasmuch as the house of Representatives has no warrant, 
orders, or authority so to do; and we presume upon it that the 


APPENDIX E. 297 


house will not be so imprudent as to undertake a business 
“to which they have no appointment.” They are deposited (as 
we are informed) in the castle “there to be defended with all 
the force of that fortress,” and we imagine they need no other 
protection, and trust that no one will offer so high an insult on 
the King as to meddle with them in any shape. We take it for 
granted that no man on earth is perfect, and that no body of 
men can lay claim to infallibility, that so wise and great a body 
as the parliament of Great Brittain is, have been mistaken that 
what has been may be again; that men have natural rights, that 
they have also rights as members of human Society, that to 
assert explain, & vindicate them, is but acting up to the char- 
acter of men and of rational Beings. We do therefore instruct 
you, upon all occasions to assert & vindicate the rights and 
privilidges of free born British subjects and the rights and privi- 
lidges delivered to us by Charter from a King of Great Brittain, 
acknowledged & consented to, really or virtually by the parli- 
ment thereof, and to use your best endeavor in the General 
Assembly to have these clearly stated and left upon the records 
of the province that posterity may know that we never did or 
could voluntarily Submit to Slavery & ruin. We cannot but 
complain of the hardships to which we are exposed by the 
enlargement of the Court of Admiralty an enlargement which 
takes from us one of the most essential rights of Englishmen, 
that is of being tried by Juries, those several acts afforemen- 
tioned are so many tax acts by which money must be drawn 
from us and we suppose without our consent having no idea or 
the least remembrance of our having been represented in par- 
liament and we really look upon these taxations, and the ex- 
traordinary power of the admiralty Judges as so many novelties 
that time itself will never reconcile us to, that they are subver- 
sive of the happiness and welfare of the province, destructive to 
the interests of the Mother country, that they not only involve 
in them the destruction of our particular rights and privilidges, 
but also strike at the very foundation of the English Constitu- 
tion, in short if they are not repealed we fear such prejudices 
will arise in the minds of the people, and their affections to the 
Government at home be so weakened that it will be a very long 
time before the former can be removed, or the latter renewed. 


298 SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


If the Parliament of Great Brittain which cannot be immediately 
acquainted with our abilities & necessities shall from time to 
time tax us and the province tax us at the same time from these 
two taxations great inequalities and injustice will arise, and 
consequently the end of Government be destroyed so that even 
allowing the parliament’s right to tax us (which at present we 
are not convinced of) yet we imagine with submission to that 
august Body it would not be wisdom in ’em to execute it. We 
have ever supposed our charter the Greatest security that could 
be had in human affairs, this was the sentiments of our fore- 
fathers, they have told us they never should have left the land 
of their nativity and fled to these ends of the earth, triumphed 
over dangers, encountered difficulties innumerable, and suffered 
hardships unparaled but for the sake of securely enjoying civil 
and religious liberty and that the same might be transmitted 
safe to their posterity ; they it is well known settled this coun- 
try at the expense of their own blood and treasure. The coun- 
try has risen, grown and been defended without any expens2 to 
the Government at home, till within a few years past, and be- 
sides defending ourselves we have several times saved some of 
his Majesties provinces from destruction; and once at least 
given peace to Europe. The profit of our labour has from time 
to time centered in Great Brittain by which her riches, her rev- 
enues & inhabitants have increased mightily; we are (not- 
withstanding the assistance granted us in the last war) far from 
thinking that there is any just reason for laying such heavy 
burdens on us; and if it is necessary in this time of peace to 
raise a sum of money for the defence of our frontiers (it being 
said for our comfort) the money raised by the Stamp Act is to 
be applied partly to that end, we had much rather be at our 
proportionable expence of forever defending our frontiers than 
to comply with that Act, and in any Constitutional way, we 
shall ever be ready to contribute our utmost to the assistance of 
our mother country : — 

We further instruct you to use your utmost endeavor to pro- 
mote publick frugality to prevent any unconstitutional grants 
and any unaccustomed draughts upon the treasury of the pub- 
lick money be only applied to the purposes to which it is from 
time to time appropriated. 


APPENDIX E. 299 


Whilst with pleasure we behold a general sense of liberty 
and those essential Constitutional rights, freedom of speech and 
of the press now prevailing we do at the same time entertain a 
just abhorance to any violence committed upon any person 
or persons whatsoever. As to any other affairs we leave their 
management to your noted prudence and judgment in which we 
place the highest confidence. 


300 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


APPENDIX F. 


[PAGE 70.] 


Tne following very imperfect list is made mainly 


from the town treasurer’s account. 


A thorough exam- 


ination of the records at the State House, Boston, would 


no doubt add largely to it. 


Some of the names, it will 


be noticed, are not those of recognized Weymouth ori- 
gin, and the men were evidently strangers, enlisted by 
the town to fill its various quotas, as was the case in the 
Rebellion of 1861-5; but the proportion is not large. 


SOLDIERS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 


Ager, Ebenezer. 
Ager, Jonathan. 
Ayers, Edward. 
Bates, Jesse. 
Bates, Jonathan. 
Bates, Lebbeus, 
Bates, Robert. 
Bates, Samuel. 
Bates, Thaddeus. 
Bates, William, Jr. 
Bayley, Abner. 
Bayley, Nathaniel. 
Bayley, Samuel. 
Beals, Azariah. 
Beals, Seth. 

Beals, Seth, Jr. 


Bender, Christopher. 


Binney, Elkanah. 
Bicknell, Benjamin. 
Bicknell, David. 
Bicknell, Ezra. 
Bicknell, Levi. 
Bicknell, Lemuel. 
Bicknell, Samuel. 
Bicknell, Zachariah. 


Blancher, Abner. 
Blancher, Daniel, Jr. 
Blancher, Josiah. 
Blancher, Dea. Samuel. 
Blancher, Simeon. 
Blancher, Theophilus. 
Burrell, Ephraim. 
Burrell, Ephraim, Jr. 
Burrell, John. 
Burrell, Reuben. 
Canterbury, John. 
Colson, Christopher. 
Colson, David. 
Colson, Gideon. 
Colson, James. 
Copeland, Gershom. 
Cushing, Azel. 
Cushing, Lieut. Er. 
Cushing, Frederick. 
Cushing, Regemelech. 
Cushing, Thomas. 
Deiano, Amasa. 
Dyer, Lieut. Asa, 
Dyer, Benjamin. 
Dyer, Jesse. 


Keon Ds 


APPENDIX F. 


Dyer, Solomon. 
Dyer, Stevens. 
Fessenden, Moses. 
French, Asa. 
French, Isaac. 
Goold, Gardner. 
Goold, Thomas. 
Gurney, David. 
Gurney, Jonathan. 
Holbrook, Abiezer. 
Holbrook, Nathaniel. 
Holbrook, Samuel. 
Holbrook, Silas. 
Holbrook, Silvanus. 
Holbrook, William. 
Hollis, Ebenezer. 
Humphrey, Jonas. K. 
Hunt, Benoni. 

Hunt, Ebenezer, Jr. 
Hunt, Eliphaz. 

Hunt, John. 

Hunt, Melzar. 

Hurt, Robert. 

Hunt, Samuel. 

Hunt, Zachariah. 
Jeffers, John. 

Joy, Lieut. David. 

Joy, Eben. 

Joy, Jacob, Jr. 

Joy, Noah. 

Kingman, Lieut. Samuel. 
Lewis, Jonathan. 
Lincoln, Israel. 

Loud, David. 

Loud, Eliot, Jr. 

Loud, Eliphalet. 

Loud, Esau, 

Loud, Jacob. 

Loud, Peleg. 

Loud, William. 

Lovell, Josiah. 

Lovell, Samuel. 

Lovell, Gen. Solomon. 
Morton, Isaac. 

Morton, Isaac, Jr. 
Morton, Micah. 

Nash, Alexander. 
Nash, Caleb. 

Nash, Elisha. 

Nash, Ezra. 

Nash, Job. 

Nash, Joseph, Jr. 


K. or D. 


Korey. 


K. or D- 


K. or D. 


Nash, Moses, 

Nash, Capt. Thomas. 
Nash, Timothy. 
Nash, Zadoc. 
Oliver, Jonathan. 
Orcutt, Benjamin. 
Orcutt, Moses. 
Peakes, Benjamin. 
Porter, Jacob. 
Porter, Micah. 
Porter, Capt. Thomas. 
Porter, Thomas. 
Pratt, Abiah. 
Pratt, Benjamin. 
Pratt, Cushing. 
Pratt, David. 
Pratt, Ephraim. 
Pratt, Ichabod. 
Pratt, James. 
Pratt, John, Jr. 
Pratt, Joshua. 
Pratt, Laban. 
Pratt, Matthew. 
Pratt, Nehemiah. 
Pratt, Samuel, Jr. 
Pratt, Silvanus. 
Pratt, Solomon. 
Pratt, Daniel. 
Reed, Asa, 

Reed, Ezra. 

Reed, John, 3d. 
Reed, Samuel. 
Rice, Josiah. 
Ripley, William, Jr. 
Rozary, Silas. 
Shaw, Caleb. 
Shaw, Nathaniel. 
Thayer, Barnabas. 
Thayer, Ebenezer. 
Thayer, John 
Thayer, Obadiah, Jr. 
Thayer, Solomon. 
Thomas, Prince. 
Tirrell, Benjamin, 
Tirrell, Ebenezer. 
Tirrell, Thomas. 
Torrey, Jonathan. 
Torrey, Joshua, Jr. 
Torrey, Noah. 
Trufant, David. 
Trufant, Joshua. 
Trufant, Capt. Joseph. 


301 


K. or D. 


K. or D. 


K. or D. 


K. or, D: 


K. or D. 


K. or D. 
eh 


302. 


Turner, Jacob. 
Turner, Micah, Jr. 
Vining, Benjamin, Jr. 
Vining, David. 
Vining, John. 
Vinson, John. 
Vinson, Lieut. Thomas. 
Ward, Capt. Samuel. 
Waterman, David. 

. Weston, Eliphas. 
Weston, Simeon. 
White, Amon. 

White, Capt. Asa. 


K. or D. 


K. or D., killed or died in the service. 


SKETCH OF WEYMOUTH. 


White, Benjamin. 
White, Daniel. 
White, James. 
White, John. 

White, Luther. 
White, Nathaniel. 
White, Nehemiah. 
White, Samuel, Jr. 
Whitman, David. 
Whitman, Nehemiah. 
Whitmarsh, Samuel. 
Wild, John. 


P., taken prisoner. 


INDEX. 





INDEX. 


Abbott, Rev. Levi A., 122. 
Luther C., 227, 
Abell (Able), Robert, 262, 267, 273. 
Abercrombie’s brigade, 217. 
Abington (town of ), 13, 45, 49, 79, 
126, 147, 151, 167, 170, 193, 216, 
286. 
Abraham, Plains of, 52. 
Academy, Weymouth and Braintree, 
sketch of, 132. 
of Arts and Sciences, American, 191. 
Acadia, 53. 
Adamant (brig), 153. 
Adams (Adames, Addames). 
Abigail (Smith, 90, 102. 
Charles Francis, Jr., Esq., 19, 22, 
23, 90, 91. 
Charles Francis, Jr., Esq., address 
of, 20. 
Elizabeth, 102. 
George M., 227. 
Henry, 263, 276. 
Dea. John, 169. 
John, 90, 102, 169. 
John Quincy, 102, 169. 
Mary, 102, 169, 248. 
Mary Cheame, 248. 
Nathaniel, 254, 257, 258, 261, 273, 
274, 
Nathaniel, land of, 269. 
Richard, 40, 248, 254, 255, 257, 260, 
261, 263, 265, 268, 269, 270, 274, 
280. 
Richard, land of, 258. 
Susanna (Boylston, 169. 
Thomas, 281. 
Addington, Isa, 253. 
Addomes. [See Adams.] 
Adjutant General’s report 225, 
Adlington, Stephen L., 227. 
Walter S., 227. 
Advance, the Weymouth, 133. 


20 


Agents of towns to meet in Boston, 
56. 
Ager, Ebenezer, 300. 
Jonathan, 300. 
Agricultural and Industrial Society, 
sketch of, 142. 
Aid to soldiers’ families, 84, 85. 
Alarm to be rung, 61. 
Alden’s, Dr. Ebenezer, Early History 
of the Medical Profession of Nor- 
folk County, 184, 189. 
Alewives, action concerning, 47, 48, 
80. 
Alexandria, Va., 171. 
Allen, Charles H., 227. 
Allin (Allyn). 
Ebenezer, 281. 
George, 248, 255, 261, 264, 269, 274, 
land of, 265. 
George, Jr., 248, 282. 
John, 255, 261, 264, 267, 269, 276, 
282. 
land of, 255, 
Katheryn, 248. 
Mathew, 248. 
Ralph (Ralfe), 255, 257, 269, 273, 
PHN 
land of, 261. 
Will., 248. 
Allison, Walter, 227. 
Allyn. [See Allin.] 
Alstead (N. H.) High School, 208. 
Ambler (White and), 203. 
America, 18, 23, 74, 158, 159, 162, 
181, 183, 189, 290. 
American Continental Congress, 58, 
Medical Society, Paris, 206. 
Ames, William F., 227. 
Amherst College, 175, 177, 200. 
First Church of, 172. 
Second Church of, 177. 
(town of), 177. 


306 


Ammunition to be furnished by the 
town, 61. 
to be refunded, 61. 
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- 
pany, 197. 
Andover Theological Seminary, 105, 
173, 175 
(town of), 1383, 166, 175, 178, 197, 
204, 291. 
Andrew, Governor, 220. 
Andrews, Edward G., 227. 
Drecis: 
Andros, Sir Edmund, trouble with, 
42, 43. 
Androsse, Goodman, 282. 
Annals (Prince’s), 181. 
Annapolis, Md., 222. 
Anniversary, two hundred and fif- 
tieth, of the town, 90. 
Antietam, battle of, 217, 221. 
Antigonish, N. S., 211. 
Anti-Masonic excitement, 140. 
Anti-Slavery resolutions, 81, 82. 
Appendix A, 247. © 
B, 250. 
C254. 
D, 285. 
B, 296. 
F, 300. 
Applegate, Thomas, 255, 281 
Appleton, William S., note of, 250. 
Appomattox (river), 228. 
Aquarius (fire engine), 92. 
Archives (State), 37, 39, 40, 41, 44, 
52 0o% 
(town), 214 
Arlington Heights, 221. 
Armington, J. W., Esq., 118. 
Arms to be furnished by the town, 60, 
61. 
Arnold (General), 71. 
John, 39. 
Capt. Samuel, 76, 
Arnold’s tavern, 59. 
Arthur, Joseph, 144. 
Artillery Company, Weymouth, 138, 
Ashburnham (town of), 201. 
Ashdown, John, 39. 
Ashfield (town of), granted to Capt. 
Hunt, 44. 
Ashford, Conn., 192. 
Ashland Cemetery, 199. 


INDEX. 


Associations, 139. 
Athol (Dakota), 16. 
Atkinson Academy, 205. 

IND HS 205: 

James, 227. 
Atlantic coast, 222. 

Ocean, 3. 
Attleborough (town of), 207. 
Augusta, Me., 211. 
Authorities cited, 10. 
Avery, Edward, 140. 
Axtell, Rev. Seth J., 122. 
Ayers, Edward, 300. 


Babcock, Rev. E. G., 118. 
Baber, Francis, 247. 
Back River (Riuer), 13, 14, 15, 17, 
26, 47, 79, 144, 147, 152, 266, 269, 
270, 273, 275, 276. 
Backer River, 265 
Badiam (Bedlam), Samuel, 44, 
William, 44. 
Bailey, Christopher T., 227. 
Orestes L., 227. 
Bailie. [See Bayley.] 
Baker, Andrew J., 227. 
Calvin R., 227. 
Charles H., 227. 
Howard, 227. 
Rev. Jacob, 120. 
William H., 227. 
Baldwin, Everett, 227. 
Ball, Dr. Josiah, sketch of, 203. 
Sarah (Taylor, 203. 
Ballot, first vote by, 41. 
Balsh, Maria Stillman, 200. 
Baltimore (M4.), 217. 
Baly. [See Bayley.] 
Banbury, England, 161, 162. 
Bangor Theological Seminary, 177. 
Bank, East Weymouth Savings, 149. 
First National, South Weymouth, 
149. 
South Weymouth Savings, 149. 
Union National, Weymouth, 149. 
Union, of Weymouth and Braintree, 
148. 
Weymouth Savings, 149. 
Banks's division, 217. 
General (N. P.), 225. 
Baptist, First Church and Society, 
sketch of, 121. 


INDEX. 


Barbar, Lemuel, 52. 
Bare Cove, boundary of, 26. 
Barnard (Bernard). 
John, 247. 
Mary, 247. 
Mussacheill (Mesechill, Mr.), 247, 
256, 262, 267, 272, 281. 
land of, 273. 
Nathaniel, 247. 
Rev. Mr., 24, 96, 97, 157, 158. 
Rey. Theophilus, 166. 
Barnes, Ferdinand J., 227. 
Robert B., 227. 
Barnstable (town of), 101, 158, 159, 
166. 
Barrett, Catherine Pallisseuir, 207. 
Barry, Rev. John S., 118, 119. 
Barstow, Rev. F. O., 124. 
Bartlett, George, 227. 
Bass, E. W. H., 140. 
Sarah, 187. 
Batcombe, England, 247, 248, 249. 
Bate. [See Bates.] 
Bates, Albert, 227. 
Alfred L., 227, 
and Albee, 294. 
and Reed, 291. 
Annie Tirrell, 295. 
Bessie Tirrell, 295. 
Betsey Dyer (Loud, 295. 
Charles W., 227. 
Edmund G., 140. 
(Bate), Edward (Elder, Mr.), 127, 
144, 161, 255, 258, 259, 260, 261, 
265, 282, 283, 289. 
land of, 254. 
Capt. Elijah, 193, 289, 290. 
Elijah R., 227. 
James L., Gen., 83, 139, 142, 218 
227. 
sketch of, 289. 
James Wilmot, 295, 
Jesse, 300. 
John F., 227. 
John W., 116, 227. 
Jonathan, 300. 
Leavett, 227. 
Lebbeus, 300. 
Levi, Capt., 76, 138. 
Levi L., 227. 
Lewis D., 227. 
Mary Jane (Tirrell, 295, 


307 


Bates (Mill), 48, 143, 144. 
Noah, 52. 
O. B., Esq., 118. 
Robert, 300. 
Samuel, 300. 
Samuel A., 141, 227. 
Sarah (Torrey, 289. 
Stephen, 227. 
Thaddeus, 300. 
William, 52. 
William, Jr., 300. 
William L., 227. 
Baton Rouge, La, 225. 
Bay (the), 266, 269. 
Bay Colony, 7, 160. 
Bay State Hammock Company, 
155. 
Bayley (Baylie, Baly, Bailey, Bailie). 
Abner, 300. 
Benjamin, 178. 
Charlotte, 288. - 
Daniel, 178. 
Widow Deborah (Pratt, 288. 
Elizabeth, 178, 288. 
Rev. James (Mr.), 9, 108, 109, 287. 
sketch of, 177. 
James, Jr., 178. 
John, 178. 
Joshua, 178. 
Lydia, 288. 
Mary, 178, 288. 
Nathaniel (Dea. Capt.), 52, 56, 57, 
58, 59, 60, 61, 64, 71, 129, 178, 
288, 300. 
sketch of, 287. 
Samuel, 178, 300. 
Samuel, Major, 288. 
Samuel P., Capt., 138. 
(Mrs.) Sarah, 178, 287. 
Sarah, 178. 
Tamar, 288. 
Tamar (White, 288. 
Thomas, 40, 178, 254, 259, 265, 268, 
273, 278, 279, 281, 283, 284. 
deed to, 279. 
Beal, Jeremiah, 186. 
Nathaniel, 287. 
Beale, Abigail, 188. 
Alpheus, 189. 
Daniel, 189. 
Jeremiah, 189. 
John, 189. 


308 


Beale, Dea. Lazarus, 189. 

Lazarus, 190. 

Dr. Lazarus Andrews, sketch of, 189. 

Lydia (Wheat, 189. 

Lusitanus, 189. 

Martha, 189. 

(Mrs.) Ruth, 189. 

Solomon J., Esq., 189. 

(Mrs.) Susanna, 189. 

Beals, Augustus, 155. 

Azariah, 300. 

Berthia (Lewis, 190. 

Elias, 190, 

Elias F.,. 227. 

Elias S., Esq., 190. 

Elizabeth, 190. 

Lewis, 190. 

Lydia, 190. 

Seth, 300. 

Seth, Jr., 300. 

Bearce, Simeon, 227. 
Beard, Austin P., 227. 
Beaulieu, Moses, 227. 
Beck, Bertha M., 213. 

E. S. (Malcom, 213. 

Fred, 213. 

Dr. Judson L., sketch of, 213. 
Bedlam [see Badlam], Samuel, 44. 
Belcher, Alfred C., 227. 

Belle Plain (Va.), 218. 
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 
2A, 
Bellingham, Gov., 164. 
Bender, Christopher, 300. 
Benet. [See Bennett. ] 
Bennett (Benet), Edward, 252, 257, 
265, 266, 268, 271, 273, 277, 278, 
280. 
land of, 274. 
Bent, Henry K. W., 172. 
Rev. Josiah, Jr., 105. 
sketch of, 171. 

Josiah (3d), 172. 

(Mrs.) Paulina, 172. 

Paulina Rice, 172. 

Samuel Adams, 172. 

Susan Sarah, 172. 

Thacher Tucker, 172. 

Berge. [See Burge.] 

Berkshire Medical College, 203, 204. 
Bernard. [See Barnard.] 
Berstow, John, 255. 





INDEX. 


Beverly (town of), 158. 
Bicknell (Bickewell, Bickwell). 

Agnis, 248. 

Anson F., 227. 

Benjamin, 300. 

Charles E., 227. 

David, 300. 

Ezra, 300. 

Francis A., 227. 

Frederick T., 227. 

George W., 227. 

John, 248, 283. 

John Q., 227. 

Lemuel, 300. 

Levi, 300. 

Lovell, 140. 

Robert, widow of, 201. 

Samuel, 300. 

Zachariah (Zackary, Zakry), 101, 

248, 279, 281, 300. 

Z. L., 140. 
Bienville, Lewis, 227. 
Billerica (town of), 170, 171. 
Bingham, Clarence V., 228. 
Binney, Elkanah, 300. 

Isaac H., 228. 

John, 228. 
Binney’s, 79. 
Birmingham, Matthew, 228. 

Richard, 228. 
Biscoe, Rev. Mr., 110. 
Bishop (historian), 159. 
Blackman, John H.., 228. 
Blackstone (Mr.), 182. 
Biade Mill, 144. 
Blake, James, 103, 128. 

John, 282, 284. 
Blanchard (Blancher), Abner, 300. 

Alonzo, 228. 

Alonzo W., 228. 

Charles B., 228. 

(Blancher), Daniel, Jr., 300. 

David, 285. 

Edward, 194. 

Frank, 228. 

George W., 228. 

James B., 228. 

John, 228. 

John, Jr., 228, 

Joseph, 52. 

(Blancher), Josiah, 300. 

Lucinda (Torrey, 194. 





INDEX. 


Blanchard, Mark M., 228. 
Nathaniel, 52, 53. 
O.S., 228. 
Otis S., 228. 
Richard, 61. 
(Blancher), Dea. Samuel, 300. 
(Blancher), Simeon, 300, 
(Blancher), Theophilus, 300. 
Thomas §S, 228. 
Bliss’ History of Rehoboth, 30. 
Bodge, (Rev.) G. M., 40. 
Bolster, Rev. William H., 114. 
Bolter, Richard, 283. 
Bond, Hannah Cranch, 196. 
Boodrue, John, 228. 
Boot and shoe manufacture, 150, 151. 
Boston (town and city of), 6, 10, 13, 
15, 27, 28, 29, 37, 38, 39, 42, 49, 
50, 53, 56, 57, 58, 65, 70, 71, 74, 
76, 87, 97, 98, 100, 101, 105, 112, 
139, 146, 147, 150, 153, 160, 161, 
162, 163, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 
171, 172, 173, 183, 184, 193, 195, 
199, 200, 202, 203, 204, 206, 213, 
216, 219, 220, 225, 250, 251, 253, 
286, 290, 292, 294, 300. 
City Hospital, 206. 
Committee, letter from, 57. 
Gazette, 169. 
Harbor, 5, 13, 19, 23, 138, 154, 212, 
216, 293. 
jail, 81. 
schools, 202. 
siege of, 70, 71. 
taxes, 25. 
University, 118, 213. 
Boundaries established, 26. 
town, 13. 
Bounties to soldiers, 61, 62, 63, 84, 
86, 87. 
Bourne, Ezekiel P., 228. 
Ves 2285 
Bowditch, Alden, 140. 
Frederick H., 228. 
Bowdoin (College), 200, 210, 211. 
Medical School, 210. 
Bowers, Hannah, 2d, 171. 
Bowin, Richard, 257, 260, 261, 272. 
land of, 273. 
Bowker, James B., 228. 
Bowles, Rey. B. F., 120. 
Boxford (town of), 175. 


309 


Boyle, Mary Ann, 211. 
Bradford, Governor, 24, 181. 
Stephen S., 140. 
Bradford's History, 19, 24. 
letter book, 25. 
Bradley Fertilizer Company, sketch 
of, 154. 
Peter B. (tow-boat), 154. 
William L., 154. 
Bradstreet, Gov., 44. 
Brady, Thomas, 228. 
Bragg, Dr. Ira W., 228. 
Braintree (town of) (Brantry, Brain- 
try, Brauntry), 13, 16, 34, 38, 44, 
45, 49, 53, 79, 107, 111, 112, 132, 
147, 148, 149, 162, 169, 187, 188, 
192, 198. 
line (lyne ), 282, 283. 
Brandon (Brandin), William, 260, 
264, 267, 269, 278, 282. 
Brastow, Miss Lucy M. K., 133. 
Brauntry [see Braintree], 282, 283: 
Bresnahan, Michael, 228. 
Bridge, a, 200. 
over the Smelt Brook, 49. 
Bridgewater (town of), 104, 112, 
122, 167, 182, 185. 
Bridgton Academy, 210. 
High School, 210. 
Brigges. [See Briggs.] 
Briggs, Charles E., 228. 
(Brigges) Clement, 257, 262, 270, 
281. 
land of, 264. 
Ephraim, 109. 
Henry H., 228. 
John H., 228. 
Widow, 282, 283. 
Brinsmead, Rev. Mr., 164. 
Bristol (county), 3. 
South District Medical Society, 
201. 
British Museum, 94, ‘ 
subjects, 297. 
Britton (Brittin), James, 264, 282. 
Broad Street, 117, 122. 
Broadway, England, 249. 
Brooklyn, N. Y., 224. 
Brooks, Spencer L, 228. . 
Brown, Dennis, 228. 
George, 228. 
James, 228. 


310 


Brown, Mary E. (Wilson, 210. 

Rey. Miss Olympia, 119. 

Roscoe B., 210. 

Dr. Roscoe Ellsworth, sketch of, 

210. 

University, 199. 
Brunswick, Me., 210. 

Bryan, Lt.-Col. T. M., 216. 

Bryant, James A., 228. 

Buckland (town of), 203. 

Buckmaster, Michael, 228. 

Buker, Leonard E., 228. 

Bullard, Joanna, 203. 

Bull Run, second battle of, 217. 

Burbank, Major Elisha M., 216. 

Burge (Burg, Berge), John, 277, 283 
284, 

land of, 256. 

Burns, Francis D., 228. 

John W., 228, 
Burnside, Gen., 221. 
Burr, E. Waters, 140. 
Burrell, Charles H., 228. 

David B., 228. 

Ephraim, 300. 

Ephraim, Jr., 300. 

Humphrey, 52. 

Col. Isaac S., 85, 224, 

John, 38, 260, 263, 269, 

300. 
land of, 259. 

John G., 228. 

John P., 228, 

Joseph H,, Jr., 228. 

Lavinia (Torrey, 194. 

Martin D., 228. 

Martin J., 228. 

Oliver, 220, 228. 

Reuben, 194, 300. 

Richmond, 228. 

Richmond P., 229. 

Samuel E., 229. 

W. L., 228. 

William L., 229. 

mill, 144. 
Burroughs, Rev. Mr., 124. 
Bursley (Burslem, Busley), John 

(Mr.), 25, 26, 159, 258, 266, 269, 
270, 274, 277. 
Burying Hill, 27, 90, 96, 99, 165. 

Iland, 258, 266, 269, 271, 275, 277. 
Business enterprises, 76. 


282, 283 


INDEX. 


Busley [see Bursley], 277. 

Butterworth, John, 262, 271. 
Samuel, 260, 269, 278, 281, 282, 283. 
Widow, 281. 

Byram, Abigail, 182. 
Deliverance, 182. 
Experience, 183. 

Mary, 183. 

Nicholas, 272, 282. 

Dr. Nicholas, sketch of, 182. 
Nicholas, Jr., 182. 
Susannah, 183. 

Susannah. (Shaw, 182. 


Cady, Benjamin L., 229. 
Lorenzo, 229. 
Cahill, Thomas, 229. 
Cain, Leonard W., 229. 
Stephen, 141, 229. 
Cairo, IIL, 222. 
Cakebread, Isaac, 39. 
Calder, Mr., 128. 
California, 151, 203, 291. 
fever, 291. 
Calnan, John, 229. 
Cambridge College [see Harvard], 
125, 171. 
(town of), 59, 66, 171. 
Camden, Me., 177. 
Camp Meigs, 223, 224. 
N. P. Banks, 224. 
Stanton, 220. 
Campbell's Station, fight at, 222. 
Canada, 30, 44, 51, 71. 
Canadian expedition, 44, 62, 71. 
Canning establishment, 156. 
Canterbury, John, 52, 53, 300. 
Stephen, 52. 
William, 229. 
Cape Cod, 21. 
Sable, 152. 
Carey, Timothy, 229. 
Carney, Thomas, 229. 
William, 229. 
Carpenter, William, 252, 256, 261, 
268. 
land of, 278. 
Carroll, John, 229. 
Michael, 229. 
Carrollton, La., 224. 
Carruth, Major Sumner, 220, 
Casey, Brig.-Gen., 220. 


INDEX. 


Castle, William, 138. 
Carter, Galen A., 229. 
Cedar Mountain (battle of), 217. 

(Cedar) Swamp, Swampe [see 

Sedar], 254, 270, 273. 
Cemetery, Highland, 185. 

Old North, 90, 167, 168. 
Chamberlain, K., 141. 
Chancellorsville, battle of, 218. 
Chandler, Bradford, 229. 
Chapel (First Church) built, 106. 
Chapin, Charles Emmons, 177. 

Ebenezer, 176. 

Edwin Robinson, 177. 

Frank Sumner, 177. 

Rev. F. P., 107. 

sketch of, 176. 

Margaret (McFarlane, 177. 

Robert McFarlane, 177. 

Sarah Louisa, 177. 

Sarah (Robinson, 176. 

Sarah S. (Wallace, 177. 
Chapman, Daniel L., 229. 
Chard, William, 125, 126, 281, 282, 

283. 
Charity (ship), 19. 
Charles Osgood (transport), 224. 
Charlestown (church of), 161. 

(town of), 101, 164, 168. 
Chase, Abial H., 229. 
Chauncey, Rev. Charles, 163, 183. 
Chelsea (city of), 220. 
Chessman, E. B., 229. 

Chicago, Ill., 176. 
Chickering, Bathsheba, 162. 
Chickin, Joseph, 249. 
Childs, John, 229. 
Church, attempt to form a new one, 
98. 
first, 102, 105, 168, 170, 175, 176, 
Wythe 
First Congregational, 95. 
originally Episcopalian, 95. 
gradual change, 96. 
of England, 5, 23, 95. 
of Weymouth, 161, 163, 165, 166, 
168, 169, 288. 

records, commenced when, 103. 

records, want of early, 8, 9, 10. 

troubles, 7, 28, 97, 98. 
Churchill, Joshua F., 229. 

Julius R., 229. 


311 


Cincinnati (Ohio), 222. 
City Hospital, Boston, 206. 

Point (Va.), 219. 

Clap (Clapp), Thomas, 276. 
Clape (Clapp), Thomas, 273, 276. 
Clapp, Loring O., 229. 

wife of Thomas, 269. 

William H., 229. 
Clark, Albert, 229. 

(Rev.) Daniel A., 112. 
Cleftone. [See Clifton.] 
Cleverly, Thomas F., 120. 
Clifton (Clifdon, Cleftone), Thomas, 

256, 259, 277. 
land of, 260. 
Clinton Street (Boston), 216. 
Clothier, Jeremiah, 39. 
Coal trade, 153, 154, 
Cobb, Sally, 168. 

Rev. Sylvanus, 120. 
Coburn, Hiram S., 85, 229. 
Cocheco, N. H., 159. 
Coffin, Rev. Mr., 119. 
Coffran, Dr. Charles, sketch of, 202. 
Cohasset, alarm at, 77, 78. 

precinct records, 189. 

(town of), 189, 190, 208. 
Cokeley, Dennis, 229. 

Humphrey, 229. 

Cole, Rev. Gideon, 121, 122. 
Coleman, Thomas, 229. 
College, Amherst, 175, 177. 

Cambridge [see Harvard], 125, 171. 

Dartmouth, 201, 208. 

Harvard. [See Harvard.] 

New Jersey, 109, 179. 

Yale, 204. 

Collet, Frederick, 229. 
Colonial records, 10, 25. 
Colonies (the), 286, 287. 
Colored troops, 203. 
Colson, Christopher, 300. 

David, 300. 

Ebenezer, 57. 

Frederick B., 229. 

Gideon, 69, 300. 

James, 300. 

Josiah, 59. 

Thomas, Jr., 52. 
Colson’s mill, 145. 
Columbia Street, 199. 
Columbian Hall, 119. 


312 


Comer, John, 282, 283. 
Commerce (ship), 153. 
Commercial Company, 153. 
Street, 188, 190, 212. 
Committee of Correspondence, 57, 
58, 59, 60, 61. 
of militia, 37, 38, 39, 40. 
of safety, 78. 
on town history, 1. 
Commons (town), 34, 49, 50, 255, 257, 
258, 259, 262, 263, 264, 266, 267, 
268, 269, 270, 271, 273, 275, 276, 
277, 279. 
Companies F, G, H, I, K, 12th Rest., 
216. 
Company A, 42d Regt., 85, 223 to 
225. 
H,!2th Regt., 83, 87, 216 to 219, 292. 
H, 35th Regt., 85, 220 to 223, 
G, 4th Heavy Art., 87, 226. 
of horse, 41. 
Concord, N. H., 211. 
(town of), 58, 66, 207. 
Concordance, Cruden’s (Newman’s), 
162. 
Congregational Church, East Wey- 
mouth, 114, 117. 
churches, 95. 
Congress at Cambridge, 59. 
at Watertown, 60. 
resolutions of, 58. 
Connecticut, 30, 37, 167, 194. 
River, 37, 38. 
Conner, Daniel, 229. 
Conners, Patrick, 229. 
Constables to be held harmless, 58. 
Constitution (State), 66, 67. 
proposed amendments to, 67. 
(United States), 74. 
Continental Congress, 58. 
(transport), 225. 
Contributions for soldiers, 86, 87. 
Convention in Boston, 74. 
(State), at Cambridge, 66. 
Cony Academy, 211. 
Cook, Thomas W., 229. 
Cooke, Elisha, 253. 
Robert, 258, 269. 
(Cook), Walter, 282, 283. 
land of, 268. 
Cooley, Rev. Henry E., 1. 
Coolidge, Amos R., 229. 








INDEX. 


Coolidge, Francis E., 229. 
Frederick, 229. 
George H., 229. 
Richard S., 229. 
William F., 229. 
Coombs, Rev. H. C., 122. 
Cooper Lodge (K. of H.), 142. 
Copeland, Gershom, 300. 
Jane, 205. 
Copp, John, 126. 
Corban, Frank, 229. 
Roswell L., 229. 
Corbet, Robert, 39. 
Corlieu, Dr. Joseph, sketch of, 208. 
Joseph, 208. 
Mary, 208. 
Cornwall County, England, 159. 
Corporations, 148. 
Corr, Owen, 229. 
Cotter, Patrick, 229. 
Cotton, Rev. John, 160. 
Coughlan, Thomas, 229. 
Council at Dorchester, 98, 160. 
of New England, 22. 
records of, 45. 
(State), 285. 
Counters, boot and shoe, 156. 
Country highway, 271. 
Courier, Weymouth, 133, 134. 
Court of Admiralty, 297. 
of Common Pleas, 169. 
quarterly, to be held at Boston, 27. 
record, 10. 
Covington, Ky., 222. 
Cowing, Charles G., 230. 
Henry V., 230. 
Cow-pox, inoculation with, 7” 
Craddock, George, 187. 
Cranch, Elizabeth, 171. 
Elizabeth (Pearse, 169. 
John, 169. 
Mary (Smith, 171. 
Hon. Richard, 102, 169, 171. 
Creek (creeke), 257, 258, 267, 268, 269, 
270, 272. 
Crescent Lodge (I. O. O. F.), 141. 
Crocker, Mrs. Anna, 179. 
Charles A., 230. 
Elery C., 230. 
Enoch, 230. 
Cronin, Patrick, 230. 
Crosley, Rev. L. S., 119. 


Crown Point, 51. 


Cudworth, Benjamin, 230. 


Cully, Andrew, 230. 
Culpepper (Va.), 218. 


Cummings, William L., 230, 
Cunningham, John, 230. 
Currency, depreciation of, 66. 


Currying business, 155. 
Curtis, Charles H., 230. 


Cushing, Major Adam, 103, 138. 


Adjutant, 78. 
Alanson B., 230. 
Alfred T., 230. 
Azel, 300. 
Charles B., Esq., 114. 
Charles E., 230. 
David W., 230. 
Edward, 230. 
Elbridge G., 230. 
Elisha, 289. 
Lieut. Er, 71, 300. 
Francis H., 230. 
Frederick, 300. 
Frederick O., 230. 
George A., 230. 
George C., 230. 
George F., 230. 
Henry F., 230. 


Capt. Hervey, 201, 289. 


John F., 230. 
Lemuel, 128. 
Regemelech, 300. 
Thomas, 52, 53, 300. 
Thomas B., 230. 
William, 141. 
William E., 230. 
William N., 230. 
William N. (2d), 230. 
William Newton, 230. 


Dabyn, Robert, 247. 
Daffy, Thomas, 230. 
Daggett, Henry T., 230. 
Dailey, Israel N., 230. 
Dakota, 16. 
Dallof, Albert W., 230. 
Dalton, John W., 230. 
Daly, Dennis, 230. 
Dame, Joseph T., 230. 
Damon, Albert, 230. 
Isaac B., 230. 
Damon, Joshua F., 230. 


INDEX. 313 


Damon, Proctor A., 230. 

Zachariah, 230. 

Darby, Jonathan, 52. 

Hon Richard, thanks to, 61. 
Dartmoor Prison (England), 171. 
Dartmouth College, 201, 208. 
Davenport, Capt. Nathaniel, 163. 

Rev. Mr., 119, 163. 

David, C. F., 134. 
Davidson, Albert, 230. 
Davis, Rev. Benjamin H., 19. 

Adj. Charles A., 224, 

Rey. Emerson, 99. 

George R., 230. 

Horatio A., 230. 

John, 230. 

Leonard I., 230. 

Samuel, 163. 

Davon, Michael, 230. 
Davy, Manning, 230. 

William H., 231. 
Day, Greenleaf, 231. 

J. H., 231. 

James B., 231. 

Joshua D., 231. 

Dean, Benjamin R., 231. 

Seth, 231. 

Declaration of Independence, 62. 

to be read from the pulpits, 62. 
Dedham (town of), 103, 182 
Deed of sale of Weymouth, 251 to 253. 
Deere, Elias H., 231. 

Deering, N. H., 208. 
Delano, Amasa, 300. 
Delawney, Michael, 231. 
Delphi Lodge (K. of P.), 141. 
Delta Lodge (Masonic), 140. 
Denbroeder, Adrainus, 231. 
Denham, Rev. George, 114. 
Dennis, Rev. Mr., 119. 
Denton, Samuel C., 231. 
Department of Mass. G. A. R., 294. 
Deputy, instructions to, 58. 
Derby Academy, 191. 

Alden, 231. 

Franklin, 231. 

George, 231. 

Loring W., 231. 

Thomas, Jr., 231. 

Deselit, Louis, 231. 
Deshon, Jason L., 231. 
Devon (county), England, 97, 158. 


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314 INDEX. 


Dible, Francis, 249. 
Thomas, 249. 
Dickerman, Rev. Lysander, 112, 113, 
123. 
Sarah Jane, 208. 
Dinder (England), 249. 
Dinners free to selectmen, 42. 
Doble, George H., 231. 
Dodson, Rev. George, 116. 
Doget, Thomas, 255, 263, 266, 271, 276. 
land of, 275. 
Doherty, Bernard, 231. 
Donahoe, Stephen, 231. 
Donavon, Malachi, 231. 
Michael, 231. 
Donn, Thomas [see Dunn], 283. 
Donnelly, Frank, 231. 
J. Michael, 231. 
Doran, Daniel, 231. 
Dorchester, council at, 98, 160, 
church at, 161, 162. 
Heights, 71. 
(town of), 25, 27, 28, 40, 97, 98, 103, 
127, 160, 162, 184, 196, 206, 285. 
Dorr, Dr. Joseph, sketch of, 201. 
Dorset (county of, England), 26, 158, 
249. 
Dover (town of), 159. 
Downey, Thomas, 231. 
Drafts for soldiers, 67. 
Drake, James, 144. 
Rose (Horn, 211. 
Thomas, 283. 
Dr. William Abram, sketch of, 211. 
Duffy, Richard, 231. 
Dugland, Allen, 38. 
Dunbar, Charles H, 231. 
David, 231. 
James D, 281. 
Warren, 231. 
Willard J., 231. 
Dunford, John, 263. 
Dunn, Rev. Andrew, 122. 
John, 231. 
Thomas, 270. 
Durrell, Bacon & Co., 292. 
Dutch settlements, 18. 
Duvall, Lewis, 231. 
Duxbury (town of), 163, 164, 183. 
Dwelling-houses not to be built 
over half a mile from the meeting- 
house, 27. 


Dyer, Lieut. Asa, 71, 300. 
Benjamin, 44, 300. 
Rev. E. Porter, 112. 
Jesse, 300. 

Joseph, 127. 
Solomon, 301. 
Stevens, 301. 
Thomas, 254, 258, 259, 263, 276, 282, 
284, 

deed from, 279. 

deed to, 279. 

land cf, 269. 
Thomas, recorder, 34. 
William H., 231. 

Dyer'’s Mill, 145, 146. 


Earl, Daniel C., 231. 
Harly, Edward, 231. 
planters about Massachusetts Bay, 
19, 23 
proprieters, with description of their 
lands, 254 to 280. 
Hast Boston, 210. 
Braintree, 112, 199. 
field (ffield), 254, 257, 258, 259, 
260, 261, 262, 267, 269, 270, 271, 
272, 273, 274, 276, 277, 279. 
India Co., 57. 
Kingston, N. H., 195. 
New York, 224. 
Street, 188. 
Tennessee, 222. 
Weymouth, 27, 81, 89, 107, 114, 116, 
117, 122, 123, 133, 134, 140, 141, 
142, 147, 156, 188, 205, 206, 210, 
211, 212) 213. 
Weymouth Congregational Church, 
114. 
Weymouth Iron Co., 14, 81. 
Weymouth Savings Bank, 149. 
Easterbrook, C. G., 133. 
HBaster Neck (Eastern), 154, 259, 261, 
262, 264, 265, 269. 271. 
Eastern Virginia, 218. 
Bastham (town of), 166, 167, 179. 
Baston (town of), 109, 179. 
Baton, Rev. B. F., 119. 
Ecclesfield (England), 161. 
Ecclesiastical court, England, 95. 
history, 95. 
Eclectic physicians, 211. 
Medical School, 211. 


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INDEX. 


Edson, John, 140. 

Samuel, 183. 

Susannah (Byram, 183. 
Educational institutions, 125. 
Edward Everett (ship), 291. 
Edwards Society, 110. 
Egerton manuscripts, 94. 
Highth Battery, 226. 

(school) district, 130. 
Eldredge, Caleb, 52. 

Mr., 133. 

Eleventh Regiment, 87. 

(school) district, 130. 

Eliot, Rev. John, 161. 
Elsworth, Rev. A. A., 113. 
Emery, Charles Francis, 176. 

Elizabeth (Welch, 175. 

Harriet (Peabody, 176 

Harriet Peabody, 176. 

Joshua, 175. 

Rey. Joshua, Jr., 106, 110, 175. 

Joshua, 3d, 175. 

Margaret, 176. 

Emigration, 30. 
Emory Hospital, 207. 
Endicott, son of Gov., 162. 
England, 18, 24, 25, 43, 51, 95, 96, 97, 
99, 144, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 
162, 164, 166, 169,171, 181, 182, 
183. 

Church of, 5, 23. 

Court of, 164. 

laws of, denied to the people, 42. 

war with, 77. 

English government, arbitrary meas- 
ures of, 55. 

masters, 130. 

Englishmen, 251, 297. 
English possessions, 18. 

provinces, 3. 

settlements, 2. 

(the), 53, 143, 251, 252. 
Episcopal service in Boston, 42. 
Episcopalian element, 7, 23, 28. 

parish (Trinity), 123. 
Eshleman, Anne Eliza, 209. 
Esquimaux (the), 177. 

Essex County, 220. 
Street, 190. 
Estes, Eli H., 231. 

Herbert E., 231. 

Samuel, 231. 


Europe, 298. 
Evans (Rev.), Israel, 104. 
Exeter Academy, 206. 

N. H., 200. 
Expenditures, increase of, 93. 
Expresses, 148. 


Factories, 155, 156. 
canning, 156. 
fire-works, 155. 
furniture, 156. 
glue, 155. 
hammock, 155. 
heels and counters, 156. 
leather bleaching, 156. 
mitten and glove, 156. 
tanning and currying, 155. 
Fahey, Edward A., 231. 
Fairbanks, George E., 231. 
Gerry, 231. 
Fairfield (town of), 164. 
Fall River (city of), 201. 
Falmouth, Me., 195. 
(town of), 172. 
Faneuil Hall, 57, 216. 
Farmer, Charles H., 231. 
William H., 231. 


315 


Farnsworth, Rev. Charles H., 118. 


Farr, Col., 225. 
Farren, G. W., 231. 
Faulkner, Harrison, 231. 
Faxon, Richard, 44. 
Fay, Blanche M., 206. 
E. Louise, 206. 
Florence J., 206. 
Frank G., 206. 
(Dr.) George Wyman, 140. 
sketch of, 205. 
George W., 206. 
Jane Louise (Mowry, 206. 
M. Fanny, 206. 
Fayetteville, N.C., 171. 
Fearing, Israel J., 232. 
William, 140. 
Federal republican, 192. 
Federalist, the, 192. 
Female physicians, 213. 
Fennell, James, 232. 
John, 232. 
Fenno, Samuel, 286. 
Ferries, 27. 
Ferry (the) (fferry), 264. 


316 


Fessenden, Moses, 301. 
Fever, Will., 248. 
fferry, 264. [See Ferry.] 
fford. [See Ford.] 
ffoster. [See Foster.] 
ffrench. [See French.] 
ffresh, [See Fresh.] 
ffrie. [See Fry.] 
Fifield, Charles B., 207. 

Ebenezer, 195. 

Emily A. (Porter, 206. 

George F., 207. 

Dr. George Fordyce, 196. 

sketch of, 202. 

Hannah Cranch (Bond, 196, 202. 

Mary 8.,.196, 207. 

Mary (Sanborn, 195. 

(Dr.) Noah, 132, 149, 200, 202, 206. 

sketch of, 195. 
(Dr.) William C. B., 196. 
sketch of, 206. 
Fifth Battery, 26. 

Regiment, 226. 

R. I. volunteers, 205. 
Fifty-second Regiment, 226. 
Financial corporations, 148. 

Fire department, 92. 
Insurance Company, Weymouth 
and Braintree Mutual, 149. 
works factory, 155. 
First Army Corps, 139. 
Brigade, 193, 197, 223. 
Church, 102, 105, 168, 170, 175, 176, 
Vie 

Church, legacy to, 107. 

Division (military), 193, 197, 223. 

Evangelical Methodist Church, 114. 

National Bank, South Weymouth, 

149, 
Regiment, 226. 
Fish Company, 152. 
glue factory, 155. 
Fisheries, 47. 
Fishermen (on the coast), 3, 17. 
Fitch, Deborah, 193. 

Gorham, 193. 

Fitchburg, Orthodox Church of, 175. 

(town of), 106, 176. 

Fitz, Rev. Henry, 122. 
Fitzgerald, Dr., 213. 

Patrick, 232. 

Fleming, Michael, 232. 


INDEX. 


Flint, Rev. Henry, 162. 
Joanna, 162. 
Mrs. Margery, 162. 
Flynn, John, 232. 
Fogarty, William, 232. 
Fogg and Torrey, 291. 
Brothers, 294. 
Force’s historical tracts, 19. 
Ford (fford), Andrew, 282, 284. 
land of, 272. 
Charles T., 232. 
James B., 232. 
(fford), John, 38, 248. 
Joseph, 52. 
Joseph B., 232. 
Michael, 232. 
Priscilla, 195. 
Fore River, 13, 14, 15, 19, 26, 76, 77, 
89, 144, 147, 152, 154. 
Forrest, Dr., 213. 
Michael A., 232. 
Forsaith, Eva M., 209. 
Dr. Francis Flint, 180. 
sketch of, 208. 
Frank L., 209. 
Sarah Jane (Dickerman, 208. 
Walter G., 209. 
Fort Sumter, attack upon, 292. 
Warren, 216. 
Forty-fifth Regiment, 226. 
Forty-second Ohio volunteers, 212. 
Regiment, 85, 215, 226. 
sketch of, 223 to 225. 
organized, 223. 
mustered, 223. 
left camp, 224. 
sailed from New York, 224. 
at New Orleans and Galveston, 
224. 
Foss, Benjamin F., 232. 
Foster (ffoster), John, land of, 272. 
Stephen §., 174. 
(ffoster), Thomas, 261, 271. 
land of, 261. 
Fourth Heavy Artillery, 87, 215. 
sketch of, 226. 
Regiment, 226. 
(school) district, 130, 
Fox, Owen, 232. 
Foye, Samuel §., 232. 
Fraher, Patrick, 232. 
France, 51. 


INDEX. 


Francistown Academy, 208. 
Franklin County, 176. 
Guards, 138. 
Frary, Rev. Lucien H., 113. 
Fraser, Archie M., 211. 
Dr. John Chisholm, sketch of, 211. 
Mary Ann (Boyle, 211. 
Mary G., 211. 
Frederick, Md., 217. 
Fredericksburg, Va., 217,218, 221. 
French, Abigail (Beale, 188. 
alliance with the Indians, 51. 
and Indian War, 11, 51. 
Asa, 301. 
Bela, 188. 
Betty, 188. 
Cecilia, 188. 
Dr. Daniel, sketch of, 188. 
Elizabeth (Hobart, 188. 
George W., 232. 
Isaac, 301. 
(ffrench), Jacob, 261, 262, 264, 276, 
282, 283. 
Joel, 188. 
Rev. Jonathan, 188. 
Judeth, 247, 
Lydia, 188. 
Mary, 188. 
Mary (Lane, 188. 
neutrals (neuter), 53. 
Ruth (Stowell, 188. 
Samuel, 186, 188. 
Samuel L., 232. 
(ffrench), Stephen (Steephen), Capt. 
161, 188, 256, 257, 258, 270, 275, 
276, 277, 279, 280, 282, 283. 
land of, 276. 
Susan Jane, 212. 
the, 52, 69. 
War, 288. 
Zethan, 188. 
Fresh Brooke, 268, 279. 
(ffresh) Marsh, 255, 258, 263, 266, 
268, 274, 277, 278, 279. 
(ffresh) Pond, 27, 252, 278, 280. 
River, 26, 79. 
Front Street, 124. 
Frost, Rev. John, 112. 
Fry (ffrie), Elizabeth, 275. 
(ffrie), Elizabeth and Mary, land of, 
275. 
George, 283, 284. 


317 


Fry (ffrie), Mary, 275. 
(ffrie), William, 254, 255, 275, 280, 
282. 
Fry’s, William, children, 283. 
Fugitive Slave Law, 82. 
resolutions upon it passed, 82. 
resolutions expunged, 82. 
resolutions restored, 82. 
Fuller, Catherine P. (Barrett, 207. 
Dr. Lemuel, sketch of, 207. 
(Rey.) Mr., 109. 
Dr. Samuel, 181. 
Fullerton, Rev. Noah, 121. 
Furness, John, 232. 
Furniture factory, 156. 
Ffusell, John, 260, 273. 
land of, 262. 


Galeta, Cal., 203. 
Gallop’s Island, 293. 
Galt, John, 128. 
Galveston (Tex.), 224, 225. 
Gamage, Theodore A., 232. 
Gammons, Frederick, 232. 
Gannett, Charles E., 232. 
Joseph H., 232. 
Gardner, Rev. Calvin, 118. 
Edward B., 232. 
George L., 232, 
Henry, 59. 
Henry A., 232. 
Jacob, Jr., 232. 
Jason, 232. 
Capt. Lemuel, 286. 
(town of), 201. 
Garey (Capt.), Andrew J., 87, 140, 
226, 232. 
Garvin, Edward, 232. 
Gay, John O., 232. 
Samuel E., 232. 
Gazette, Boston, 169. 
Weymouth, 90, 133. 
General Assembly, 297. 
Continental Congress, 59. 
Court, 15, 26, 27, 28, 29, 32, 34, 40, 
41, 43, 44, 46, 47, 49, 51, 58, 63, 
64, 67, 68, 73, 74, 77, 79, 129, 160, 
162, 165, 169, 190, 252, 253, 285, 
288, 290, 296. 
Court, deputies to be sent to, 26. 
Court permits the Hull Company 
to settle at Weymouth, 25. 


318 


General Court records, 15, 26, 27, 29, 
30, 40, 41, 44, 47. 
Court, representatives to, 26, 51, 
56. 
history of the town, 17. 
Genesee County, IIl., 292. 
Geography of the town, 13. 
Geology of the town, 16. 
Germantown (village of), 167. 
Gerrold, Alexander M., 232. 
Gettysburg (battle of), 218, 293. 
Gibbens, Alice, 202. 
Dr. Daniel L., 202. 
sketch of, 202. 
Eliza P. (Webb, 202. 
Margaret, 202. 
Mary, 202. 
Gibbs, Benjamin S., 232. 
Elisha J., 232. 
Gilbert, Jane (Copeland, 205. 
Dr. John Henry, sketch of, 205. 
John H., 205. 
Gilding establishment, 156. 
Gilham, Benjamin (Mr.), 282, 284. 
Gill, John, 263, 265, 278. 
(town of), 176. 
Gillinghan, James R., 282. 
John, 232. 
Gilmanton, N. H., 212. 
Gloster, Patrick, 232. 
Gloucester (town of), 113, 192, 216. 
Glouer. [See Glover.] 
Glove factory, 156. 
Glover (Glouer), John (Mr.), 254, 256, 
261, 267, 272, 275. 
land of, 277. 
Goddard, Rev. D. T., 119. 
Golden Gate, Cal., the, 291. 
Goldthwait, Charles, 232. 
Good Templars, 142. 
Goodell, Mr., 132. 
Goodman, Martin, 190. 
Goodwin, John, 213. 
John M., 232. 
Samuel D., 232. 
Mrs. Dr. Tirzah E., 218. 
William A., 232. 
William H., 232. 
Goold, Gardner, 301. 
Jacob, 59. 
Thomas, 301. 
Gordon, Jane Binney (Jones, 200. 


INDEX. 


Gordon, Joseph, 232. 
Solomon J., 200. 
(Dr.) Timothy, 140. 

sketch of, 200. 

Timothy, Jr., 200. 
Gorges Colony, 5, 6. 

Company, 26, 95, 97, 157. 

Sir Fernando, 5, 22. 

Gorges, Capt. Robert, 5, 22, 23. 

settlement, 22. 

settlers, 28. 

Gorman, John, 232. 

Gove, Andrew S., 232. 

Governor and Council, petitions to, 37, 

38, 39, 44, 45. 

Bradford, 19, 24. 

Bradstreet, 44. 

of Plymouth, 24. 

Winthrop, 24. 

Gould, 254. 

Grafton (town of), 205. 

Grain business, 153, 154. 

Grand Army of the Republic, sketch 

of, 139. / 

Lincoln Post, No. 40, 139. 

Post No. 15, 139. 

Reynolds Post, No. 58, 139. 
Grand Lodge (Masonic), 140. 
Grane, William, 249. 

Grape Island (Iland), 14, 15, 29, 255. 

ceded to Weymouth, 15, 29. 
Grant (General), 218, 293. 

Street, 188. 

Thomas, 232. 

Graves, George D., 232. 

Joshua, 233. 

Gray, Harryson, 59. 

James B., 81. 

Great Britain, king of, 297. 

war with, 77. 
hill, 14. 
(Greate) lots (lotes, lotts, lottes), 
257, 258, 262, 263, 270, 271, 275, 
276, 277, 279, 280, 281. 
Plantation lotts, 280. 
(Greate) Pond, 13, 14, 91, 92, 143, 
145, 151, 152, 158, 257, 258, 260, 
262, 268, 270, 275, 278, 281. 
(Greate) Swamp (Swampe), 255, 
260, 274. 
Greeley, Dr., dentist, 184. 
Greely, Charles R., 210. 


INDEX. 319 


Greely, Llewellyn, 210. 
Mary L., 210. 
Sarah Robie (Peirce, 210. 
Dr. Thomas Reuben, sketch of, 209. 
William H., 210. 
Green, Sarah, 187. 
Street, 188, 195. 
Greene, Richard, 20, 181. 
Greenleaf, Joseph, 168. 
Gregg, Samuel or Thomas, 132. 
Gridley, Col. Richard, 286. 
Groveton (battle of), 217. 
Gunning, Amos J., 233. 
Guppie, John, 282, 283. 
Guptil, Dr., 213. 
Gurney, David, 301. 
(Gurny, Gurnie), John, 258, 270, 
278, 282. 
Jonathan, 301. 
Rev. Leander P., 121. 
Zachariah, 38, 
Gustin, George A., 233. 


Hackett, Patrick, 233. 
Hadley (town of), 177. 
Hahnemann Medical College, 212. 
Haley, John, 233. 
Halifax, N. S., 213. 
Praih VAs Bs, 173. 
[See Hull. ] 
Edward W., 233. 
Hallett, Andrew, 250. 
Halliday, Rev. Joseph C., 117. 
Halligan, Edward, 233. 
Halloran, James, 233. 
Hamilton, Lucius M., 233. 
Otis R., 233. 
Hammock, Bay State, Company, 155. 
Hancock Academy, 208, 209. 
Hanley, Michael, 2d, 233. 
Hanover (town of), 199, 200. 
Hanson (town of), 49. 
Harding, Elisworth M., 233. 
(Hardinge), John, 255, 258, 263, 
264, 266, 268, 275, 276, 279, 282, 
283. 
land of, 163. 
Rey. Willard M., 114. 
Harlow, Robert, 282. 
Harmonial Hall, 120. 
Harper’s Ferry (Va.), 217. 
Harrington, Isaac N., 233. 


Harrington, Minot J., 233. 
William, 233. 
Harris, Walter, 267, 273, 276, 277, 
281. 
land of, 255. 
Harris’s Rainge, 255, 256, 260, 262, 
268, 271, 277, 278. 
Harrisburg (Pa.), 217, 222. 
Hart (Harte), Edmund (Edmond, Ed- 
ward ), 258, 267, 270, 272, 273, 276, 
277, 280, 283. 
land of, 261. 
Edward (Edmund), 280. 
John W., 238. 
Michael, 233. 
Harvard (College, University) [see 
Cambridge], 99, 100, 101, 102, 
103, 104, 105, 109, 128, 162, 163, 
164, 165, 166, 168, 170, 171, 172, 
178, 190, 195, 197, 202, 207, 286. 
Medical School, 197, 201, 202, 203, 
204, 205, 206, 207, 209, 210, 211. 
(town of), 207. 
Harvey, Widow Ruth, 49. 
Hastings, Capt. Charles W., 139, 233. 
Hatfield (town of), 166. 
Hathaway, Elizabeth (Stansbury, 
213, 
Florence, 2138. 
Harry S., 213. 
Maria Li 213. 
Dr. William Fales, sketch of, 212. 
William Fales, Jr., 213. 
Haverhill (town of), 102, 169, 220. 
Hawes, Bradford, 117, 233. 
Charles, 233. 
Rev. E. H., 120. 
Hayard, William, 262, 269. 
Hayden, Albert C., 233. 
George F., 233. 
Hayes, Rev. S. H., 111, 114. 
Haylett, Rev. Henry P., 118. 
Hayward, Charles W., 233. 
(Mrs.) Elizabeth, 187. 
Isaiah T., 233. 
Dr. James, sketch of, 186. 
James, Jr., 186. 
Lydia, 187. 
Nehemiah, 186. 
Sarah (Green, 187. 
Hazard (historian), 24. 
Heald Lysander, 233. 


eee 


320 


Healy, Cornelius, 233. 

George R., 233. 

Henry, 233. 

James H., 233. 

William, 233. 

Heard, Capt. John, 159. 

Hee] and counter factory, 156. 
Helena (Ark.), 209. 

Hemphill, Rev. Mr., 119. 
Hennessey, John, 233. 
Hennigan, Rev. Father, 123. 
Herringe, Broge (herring brook), 47. 
Herrings, 47. 

Hersey, Daniel D., 233. 

William S., 233. 

Wilson D., 233. 

Hesse, Augustus, 233. 

Hewes (Hues, Hughes), 
260. 

Hewitt, Rev. Elmer E., 120. 

Henry, 233. 
Hiberrians, the, 142. 
Hickes, John, 276. 
Hickey, Kenneth, 233. 
Higgins, Lucius, 233. 

Michael, 233. 

High school, 131. 

(school) committee, 130. 
Highland Cemetery, 185, 199. 
Highway (Highways, Hiways, Hi- 

waie, Hiewaie, Highwaie), 32, 48, 

54, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 

260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 

267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 

274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279. 
Hill, Boyle D., 233. 

Great, 14. 

King Oak. 

Smith’s, 14. 
Hillard, Widow, 32. 

Hilton Head, S. C., 224. 
Hingham and Quincy Bridge and 
Turnpike Corporation, 147. 

(Hingam) bounds, 276, 277. 

land, 273. 

(Hingam) line, 257, 267, 276, 281. 

Piain, 144. 

(town of), 18, 14, 16, 26, 27, 34, 38, 

45, 49, 79,97, 112, 141, 146, 147, 
158, 159, 170, 186, 188, 189, 190, 
191, 195, 200, 289. 

troops, 44, 45. 


William, 


[See King Oak.] 


INDEX. 


Historical records, 8. 
Society, Weymouth. 
mouth. | 
Hoar, Rev. Leonard, 162. 
Hobart, Elizabeth, 188. 
Otis M., 233. 
Thomas, 151, 152. 
Thomas P., 233. 
Hobby, Col., sent to draft men from 
Weymouth and Hingham, 45. 
Hobill, Ralph, 233. 
Hoble, John, 250. 
Hocking, William H., 233. 
Hockley (Hocklie), 257, 274, 275. 
Hodgdon, Dr. Joseph Porter, sketch 
of, 211. 
Holbrook (Holbrooke, 
Houlbrook). 
ye a 
Abiezer, 301. 
Anne, 249. 
Elizabeth, 249. 
Elizabeth (Shaw, 194. 
George, 233. 
George A., 233. 
Hannah, 194. 
Hannah (Patterson, 171. 
Harriet, 171. 
Jane, 249. 
Jeremiah, 233. 
John (Lieut., Capt.), 34, 100, 126, 
171, 249, 253, 268, 270, 279, 282, 
287. 
John Q A., 233. 
Lydia, 287. 
Nathaniel, 301. 
Richard M., 234. 
Ruth, 185. 
Samuel, 194, 301. 
Sarah (Hunt, 287, 
Silas, 301. 
Silvanus, 301. 
Thomas, 249, 252, 255, 258, 260, 
262, 263, 266, 268, 269, 275, 276, 
281, 282, 284. 
Thomas, Jr., 249. 
(town of), 13, 200. 
William, 234, 283, 284, 301. 
William, Jr., 52, 53. 
William A., 234, 
William O., 234. 
Holland, 18. 


[See Wey- 


Hollbrook, 





INDEX. 


Hollard (Holard), Angell (Aingel, 
Aingle), 249, 261, 262, 265, 266, 
269, 270, 274, 275, 277, 278. 
land of, 257. 
Katheryn, 249. 
Hollester (Holester), John, 260, 262, 
268, 278. 
land of, 256. 
Hollis, Adoniran B., 234. 

Asaph L., 284. 

Ebenezer, 301. 

George, 234. 

Henry S., 234. 

Isaac N., Jr., 234. 

John, 40, 

John F., 234. 

John O., 234. 

John Q., 234. 

Leroy S., 234. 

Street Church, Boston, 112. 
Holliston Academy, 203. 
Holmes, Jesse H., 234. 

Lyman T., 234. 

Marcus M., 234. 
Homeopathic physicians, 212. 
Hooker (Gen.), 218. 

Hope, John, 234. 
Hopkinton (town of), 196. 
Horn, Rose, 211. 

Horse company, 41. 

troop, 137, 138. 

House [see Howse], built of logs, 27. 
Houghton, Edzel, 234. 
Oliver, 234. 
Houlbrooke [see Holbrook], Thomas, 
263. 
Howard, Henry, 234. 
Howe and French, 145, 155. 
Dr. Appleton, 195, 196, 197, 200, 
207. 
sketch of, 196. 

Appleton L., 198. 

Eliza (Loud, 198. 

Harriet (Loud, 198. 

Hattie, 198. 

Rey. Nathaniel, 196. 

(Mrs.) Olive, 196. 

Howland, Mr., 281. 

William, 256. 
““Howse, my,” 260. 
Hubbard, Samuel, 79. 

Hon, Samuel, 106, 173. 


321 


Hucklebury Pond, 278. 
Hudson, N. H., 209. 
(River), 18. 
Hues (Hewes, Hughes), William, 260, 
268. 
Hughes (Hewes, Hues), 
259. 
(Hewes, Hues), William, 271, 272, 
276, 278. 
Hull (Hall), Agnes (Agnis), 159, 247. 
Benjamin, 159. 
Company, the, 7, 11, 25, 28, 247, 
280, 281. 
Dorothy, 159, 247. 
(Hall), Elizabeth, 159, 247. 
Griselda (Grizzell, Gressell),159, 247, 
(Hall), Joanna, 159, 247. 
(Hall), Joseph (Rev. Mr.), 7, 11, 25. 
26, 28, 29, 96, 97, 98, 158, 159, 
160, 161, 182, 194, 247, 260, 264, 
267, 268, 272, 278, 280, 286. 
sketch of, 158. 
Naomi, 159. 
Reuben, 159. 
Robert B., 159. 
Ruth, 159. 
soldiers sent to, 69. 
(Hall), Temperance, 159, 247. 
(town of), 49, 164. 
(Hall), Tristram, 159, 247. 
Humphrey, Abigail, 286. 
Ann, 285. 
Ann (Torrey, 285. 
Asa, 289. 
Clinton C., 234. 
Deborah, 286, 289. 
Deborah (Tirrell, 288. 
Col. Ebenezer, 289. 
Elizabeth, 286. 
James (Hon. Major), 53, 56, 57, 64, 
66, 67, 71. 
instructions to, 296. 
sketch of, 285. 
James, Esq. (3d), 78, 79, 129. 
sketch of, 288. 
James (Jr.), 285. 
James (Senior), 285, 
Jonas, 38, 301. 
(Dea.) Jonas, 283, 285. 
Josiah, 285. 
Lemuel, Hsq., 289. 
Levi, 289. 


Goodman, 


322 


Humphrey, Lucy, 285, 289. 

Lydia, 289. 

Margaret, 285. 

Margaret (Torrey, 285. 

Capt. Nathaniel, 286. 

Samuel, 288. 

Sarah, 286. 

Sarah (Badlam, 288. 

Silence (Whitmarsh, 286. 

Susan, 289. 

Susanna, 286. 

William, 141. 

William & Co., 156. 
Hunt, Benoni, 301. 

Clarence A., 156. 

Ebenezer, 44. 

Ebenezer, Jr., 301. 

Edmund §S., 155. 

Eliphaz, 301. 

Ephraim (Capt., Col.), 44, 127, 271, 

283. 
Enoch (Enock), 269, 277. 
land of, 275. 

Henry N., 234. 

James L., 234. 

Joanna, 187. 

John, 301. 

John Q., 234. 

Melzar, 301. 

Micah, 44. 

N. F. T., 140. 

Robert, 301. 

Samuel, 127,301. 

Samuel W., 234. 

Sarah, 283, 284. 

Webster W., 234, 

William, 234. 

Zachariah, 301. 
Huntington (town of), 205. 
Hunt’s Hill, 152, 155. 
Huntstown, 44. 

Huste, Robert, 250. 
Hutchinson, Mrs. (Anna), 28, 160. 


Ice companies, 153. 
company, South Boston, 153. 
Tllinois, 222. 
Immaculate Conception, parish of, 
sketch of, 123. 
Improvement Society, Boston, 206. 
Independence, Declaration of, 62. 
to be read in the churches, 62. 


INDEX. 


Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
sketch of, 141. 
Indiana, 222. 
Indian deed of the town, 28, 251. 
copy of, 251. 
neighbors, 21. 
settlements, 3. 
title to the town, 27. 
trails and camps, 3. 
Indians, 3, 17, 20, 21, 27, 29, 30, 36, 
37, 38, 252, 253. 
land, 272. 
Pigwacket, 50. 
Instructions to representatives, 63, 
296. 
Introduction, 1. 
authority for publishing this sketch,1. 
reason therefor, 1, 2. 
character of the work, 2. 
difficulties in the way of prepara- 
tion, 3. } 
scarcity of records and material, 3. 
jealousy and ill-will of neighboring 
settlements, 3. 
general plan, 4 to 12. 
Ipswich (town of), 183. 
Ireland, 182. 
contributions from, 37. 
Iron Company, Weymouth, 144. 
sketch of, 152. 
Tron manufactures, 151, 152. 
Iron works district (Braintree), 198. 
Island, Grape, 14, 29. 
Round, 15, 29. 
Sheep, 15. 
Isle of Shoals, 158, 159. 
Italy, 204. 


Jackson, Dr., 202. 
Miss, 222. 
Nelson §S., 234. 
Jacobs, Daniel, 234. 
James (King), 43. 
(ship), 162, 183. 
Jamestown, Va., 18. 
Jaquith, Reuben, 234. 
Jefferay (Jeffereyes), Will, 252, 254, 
Jefferey (Jefferie), Mr., 265, 270, 271, 
276, 278. 
Jeffers, John, 301. 
Jefferson (Medical College), Phila- 
delphia, 209. 





INDEX. 


Jeffery (Jefferie), Mr. Robert, 259, 
260, 267, 281. 
Jener (Jeneres), Mr. 257, 260, 265, 
267, 268, 271,272, 275, 276, 277, 
278. 
Mr., Senior, 271, 280. 
Mr., Junior, 280. 
Jenks, Thomas, 61. 
Jenner, Rev. Thomas (Mr.), 7, 28, 
97, 98, 160, 161, 182. 
Jerome, Rey. John A., 124, 
Jesope, Joyner, 247. 
Walter, 247. 
Joanes, Richard, 249. 
Joint stock company (fish), 152. 
Joliet, Ill., 200. 
Jones & Co., 133. 
Charles G., 234. 
Granville, R., 234. 
James G., 234. 
Jane Binney, 200. 
Solomon, 200. 
Josephs, Uriel, 234. 
Joy, Lieut. David, 71, 301. 
Eben, 301. 
George F., 234. 
Se 119; 
Isaac, 52. 
Jacob, Jr., 301. 
Nehemiah, 52. 
Noah, 301. 
Walter H., 234. 
Joyce, E. L., 234. 
Judson, Rev. Mr., 104. 
Jurymen, first chosen, 48. 
Justices’ court of Boston, to approve 
laws and rules of Weymouth, 45. 


Kansas City, Mo., 175, 176. 
Keating, Thomas H., 234. 
Keayne, Capt. Robert, 161. 
Keen, E. Porter, 155. 

Keep, William J., 234. 
Keily, Timothy, 234. 
Keith, Widow Abigail, 185. 
Kelley, Thomas, 234. 
Kendrigan, Edward, 234. 
Kennebunk, Me., 287. 
Kenney, Bernard, 234. 
Kennison, Benjamin R., 234. 
Kensington, N. H., 211. 
Kent, county of, England, 182. 


323 


Kentucky, 222. 
campaign, 222. 
Kerr, Owen, 234. 
Kilburn, Charles E., 234. 
Killam, Rev. R. L., 120. 
Kimball, Selden, 234. 
King (the), 296. 
(kinge). [See King.] 
Dorothy, 249. 
Hanna, 249. 
Hezekiah, 38. 
John, 127, 255, 266, 273, 281. 
John, planter, 283. 
John, seaman, 282, 283, 
Katheryn, 249. 
Mary, 249. 
Oak (Oke) Hill, 14, 27, 90, 212, 
255, 258, 259, 262, 263, 264, 265, 
266, 269, 272, 273, 274, 276, 277. 
Philip’s War, 30, 36. 
Will, 249. 
William, 248, 
Kingman, Anne, 248. 
Edward, 38, 248, 282, 283. 
Henry (Mr.), 248, 255, 259, 260, 
267, 274, 276, 278, 280, 282, 288. 
land of, 268. 
Joane, 248. 
(Mrs.) Joane, 248. 
(Kinghman), John, 248, 282. 
Nathan, 234. 
Lieut. Samuel, 62, 71, 301. 
Thomas, 248. 
Kingsbridge, England, 169. 
Kingsbury, F. A., Esq., 149. 
King’s evil, 193. 
Kinham, Alice, 249. 
Kirby, Patrick, 235. 
Kitchin, Jno., 248. 
Kittredge, Paul C., 235. 
Knights, Edward, 235. 
of Honor, sketch of, 141. 
Cooper Lodge, 142. 
Pilgrim Lodge, 141. 
of Pythias, sketch of, 141. 
Delphi Lodge, 141. 
Templars, 140. 


Labaree, Rey. Dr., 111. 
Labrador, 177. 

La Forrest, Frederick, 235. 
Lajoye, Joseph, 235. 


324 INDEX. 

Lake George, 51, 52, 286. Lenthal (Lenthall), Rev. Robert 
Lamson, Daniel, 235. (Mr.), 7, 28, 97, 98, 160, 161, 182, 
Land, George, 249. 262, 278. 


grants, 31. 
grantees, 
list of 1635, 280. 
list of 1651, 281, 282. 
list of 1663, 282, 283, 284. 
Sarah, 249. 
Lane, Mary, 188. 

Parker E., 235. 

S. Cushing, 235. 

Thomas, sickness of, 25, 

Webster, 235. 

Lantz, David J., 235. 
Larmay, Joseph, 235. 

Leander, 235. 

Lary, William, 235. 
Lathrop, Hiram G., 235. 

Washington I., 235. 
Latimer, George, 81. 

Latin and Greek masters, 130. 

School, Boston, 172. 
Laurel Hill (battle of), 219. 
Laws of the General Court, to be read 

by the town clerk, 74. 
Leach, Adnah G., 235. 

Charles, 286. 

Ezra, 149. 

Ezra W., 235. 

Giles, 283, 284. 

Mary (Byram, 183. 

Samuel, 183. 

Learned, Anna, M., 201. 

Dr. Ebenezer Turell, sketch of, 201. 

Fanny H., 201. 

Helen M., 201. 

Josephine H. D., 201. 

Lydia K., 201. 

Mary Matilda (White, 201. 

Mary W., 201. 

Sarah M., 201. 

Susan T., 201. 

William T., 201. 
Leavett, Rev. Joshua, 110. 
Lebanon, Conn., 193. 

Lee (Gen.), 217, 218, 221. 

surrender of, 223. 
Legacy, to First Church and Parish, 

107. 
Leicester Academy, 206. 
Lemar, Joseph, 235. 


Leonard, A. H., 141, 235. 

Charles H., 235. 

Charles M., 235. 

John, 235. 

Letter from the Boston Committee, 
Di. 

Levet, Christopher, Esg., 24. 

Levett’s Voyage, 19. 

Lewis, Bethiah, 190. 

Edward, 235. 

Frank W., 142, 199. 

George F., 235. 

J. W. & Co.,, 1. 

Jonathan, 301. 

Rev. Wales, 110. 

William A., 235. 

William H., 235. 

Leyden (Holland), 18. 

Lhoyd, Rev. W. F,, 124. 
Libraries, social, 134. 
Library, Mutual Association, 134. 

Tufts, sketch of, 135. 

Light Horse Troop, 138. 
Infantry Company, 138. 
Lincoln, Col. Benjamin, 51, 52. 

Daniel, 235. 

Daniel W., 235. 

George, 189. 

Israel, 301. 

John, 52. 

Post, G. A. R., No. 40, 139. 
President, 83, 216, 220, 292. 
Samuel, 235. 

Solomon, 189. 

Lindsley, Frederick, 235. 
Lines, Patrick, 235. 
Linnell, Samuel D., 235. 
Linton, Augustus A., 235. 

E. Frank, 235. 
Lippincott, J. B. & Co., 1. 
Little, Capt. Luther, 287. 

Pond, 275. 

Rock (Ark.), 209. 

Swampe, 256. 

Littlefield, Caleb, not being an in- 
habitant, warned to leave town, 
Al. 

Lemuel P., 235. 

Livermore, Rev. D. P., 119. 





Livingston, George H., 235. 
Lloyd, Charles S., 235. 
Local jealousy, 89. 

matters, 45, 73. 
Log-houses, 27, 
Londergan, Thomas, 235. 
London, Berge, 259. 


(England), 3, 19, 20, 57, 162, 181, 


194, 206, 250. 
Hospital, 206. 


325 


Lovell, Hannah, 287. 


Hannah (Pittey, 194, 287, 
Jacob R., 236. 
James, 249, 283, 287. 
Dr. James, 75, 287. 
sketch of, 194, 
James A., 236. 
John, 38, 40, 249, 282, 283. 
Joseph, 128. 
Josiah, 301. 


Long, William, 235. Lydia, 287. 
Longe, Richard, 273, 279. Lydia (Holbrook, 287. 
Loring, Benjamin J., 235. Mary, 287. 


Charles H., 235. 
Loubey, Edward, 235. 
Loud, Mrs. Anna, 198. 

Betsey Dyer, 295. 

Byron W.., 235. 

David, 301. 

Eliot, Jr., 301. 

Eliphalet, 77, 153, 198, 301. 

Eliza, 198. 

Esau, 301. 

Francis M., 235. 

Hannah W. (Dyer, 295. 

Harriet, 198. 


Mary (Torrey, 286. 
Priscilla (Ford-Winch, 195, 287. 
(Louell), Robert, 194, 249, 255, 260. 
262, 263, 265, 268, 269, 275, 276, 
279, 280, 286. 
land of, 276. 
Samuel, 301. 
Sarah, 184, 287. 
Silas, 52. 
(Gen’l) Soloman, 51, 52, 56, 57, 59, 
61, 63, 70, 71, 194, 195, 286, 301. 
sketch of, 286. 
William L., 236. 


J. & Co., 145. Zacheus, 249. 

Jacob, 301. Lovell’s Corner, 89, 117. 

John A., 235. Lovill, James, and his mother, 283. 
John F., 235. Lowell (city of), 80. 

Joseph, 107, 132, 198. Ludden (Luddon, Ludin), James, 252 
Josiah E., 235. 253, 259, 262, 265, 266,274, 279, 
Livingston W., 235. 281, 282, 283. 

Peleg, 301. land of, 271. 


Quincy, 295. 

Samuel R., 236. 

Thankful (Bates, 198. 

Thomas B., 236. 

William, 301. 

William E., 236. 
Loud’s Mill, sketch of, 145. 
Loudon, N. H., 212. 
Louell. [See Lovell.] 
Louisburg (C. B.), 52. 
Louisiana, 222. 
Louney, Daniel E., 236. 
Lovell, Anne, 249. 

Col. B. S., 139, 236. 

David, 286, 

Elizabeth, 249. 

Ellyn, 249. 

Frank G., 236. 

George, 236. 


Luddon, John, 39. 
Luke the evangelist, 181. 
Lumber traffic, 153, 154. 
Lunenburg (town of), 204. 
Lush, Henry, 220. 
Lynch, Patrick, 236. 

Rev. Father, 122. 
Lynn (city of), 210. 
Lynnfield (town of), 220. 
Lyon, George P., 220, 236. 


Macauley, Matthew, 236. 

Magazine, to be built, 78. 

Magruder (Gen.), 224. 

Mahan, Jerry, 236. 

Main Street, 147, 179, 184. 

Maine, 30, 182, 195. 
General Hospital, 210. 
ports of, 153, 


326 


Makepeace, Horace M., 236. 
Malcom, Miss E. S, 213. 
Manhattan Island, 18. 
Mangon, Charles, 236. 
Mann, George H., 236. 
Manufactures, 150. 
boot and shoe, 150. 
iron, 151. 
discouraged, 79. 
Manufacturing companies, 79, 150. 
Manuscripts, want of, 8. 
Marden, Rev. George N., 114. 
Lewis C., 236. 
Newell, 236. 
Marlborough (town of), 164, 207. 
Marlow, Peter, 236. 
Marsh, Charles N., 140. 
River, 145. 
Marshfield (town of), 287. 
Martin, Edwin, 236. 
(Martyn), Jane, 249. 
(Martyn), Robert, 249, 258, 259, 261, 
262, 266, 269, 270, 274, 278, 279, 
281. 
land of, 279. 
Maryland, 217. 
campaign, 221, 
Mason, Adoniram J., 236. 
Masonic associations, sketches of. 
Orphans’ Hope Lodge, 139. 
Delta Lodge, 140. 
South Shore Commandery, 140. 
Pentalpa Royal Arch Chapter, 140, 
controversy, 172. 
Massachusetts, 2, 80, 90, 106, 172, 
186, 198, 215, 218, 294, 
Bay, 14, 22, 36, 37, 51. 
Bay Colony, 6, 25, 36. 
Colony, 185. 
Department, G. A. R., 139. 
Historical Society, 10, 19. 
Historical Society Collections, 21, 
22, 25, 157. 
legislation, 214. 
militia, 196, 197. 
volunteers, 83, 85, 205, 216, 219, 
220, 223, 226, 289, 292, 293. 
Mather, Cotton, 181, 183, 184. 
Increase, sent to England, 43. 
Mattapan (village of), 182. 
Mattapoisett (town of), 203. 
Mattoke, David, 263. 


INDEX. 


May, John D., 236. 
Maynard, George F., 236. 
McAllister, Samuel A., 236. 
McArdle, Patrick A., 236. 
McAuliffe, Dennis, 236. 
McCarthy, John, 236. 
McCauley, Dennis, 236. 
McClellan (Gen.), 217, 221. 
McCue, Patrick, 236. 
McDavitt, William, 236. 
McFarlane, Robert, 177. 
Elizabeth S. (Pendleton, 177. 
McGill, John, 236. 
Stephen, 236. 
McGrath, Michael, 236. 
McGuire, James, 236. 
Patrick, 236. 
Thomas, 236. 
McKenzie, Daniel B., 236. 
McKinstry, Dr. Nathan, 195. 
McLean, Rev. James, 114. 
McMakens, John, 236. 
McMorrow, Charles J., 236. 
Meade (Gen.), 218. 
Medford (town of), 190, 205. 
Medical Association, Schuylkill 
County, Pa., 209. 
College, Berkshire, 203. 
College, Bellevue Hospital, 211. 
College, Hahnemann, Philadelphia, 
Pa 21 
College, Vermont, 207. 
Department, Dartmouth College, 
201. 
early history, 180. 
School, Bowdoin College, 210, 211, 
School, Eclectic, Worcester, 211. 
School, Harvard, 197, 201, 202, 203, 
205, 206, 207, 209, 210, 211. 
School, Portland, 210, 
Society, Massachusetts, 191, 196, 
198, 199, 201, 202, 204, 205, 206, 
208, 209, 210, 211. 
Society, Norfolk District, 198, 206. 
Society, Pennsylvania State, 209. 
Meeting-house, 27, 34, 51, 79, 96, 99 
100, 165, 259. 
built, 100, 105. 
burnt, 51. 
Mellen, Rev. Charles, 119. 
Mellis, William, 38. 
Melton, Joseph, 44. 





INDEX. 


Memorial day, 90. 
Merchant, William F., 236. 
Merritt, Amos, 194. 
Nancy (Torrey, 194. 
Susan (Torrey, 194. 
Merry Mount, 20, 25. 
Methodist Church, East Weymouth, 
107. 
Episcopal Church, East Weymouth, 
sketch of, 114, 116. 
Episcopal Church, Lovell’s Corner, 
sketch of, 117. 
First Evangelical Church, 114. 
Methuen, First Congregational 
Church of, 173. 
Mexican Gulf, 3. 
War, 198. 
Middle Street, 82, 123. 
Middleborough (town of), 122. 
Middlesex County, 186. 
Middleton (town of), 113. 
Middletown, Conn., 203. 
Midhope (England), 161. 
Milford (town of), 113, 122, 203. 
Military company, 44, 138. 
Eastern District, 70. 
organizations, 137. 
records, 84. 
Militia enrolled, 61, 137. 
Mill blade, 144. 
Brook, 266. 
Cove, 144. 
Creeke, 271. 
field (ffield), 263, 264, 265, 267, 273, 
275, 276, 278. 
foote path, 273. 
furlonge, 256. 
ground, 265. 
lot, 259, 263. 
path, 264, 271. 
River, (riuer) 14, 143, 265, 275, 276, 
278, 279. 
street to, 272. 
the, 259, 265, 267, 271, 276, 278. 
Millbury (town of), 208. 
Millway (waie, weigh), 257, 264, 271, 
276. 
Mills, sketches of. 
Colson’s, 145. 
Dyer’s, 145. 
Loud’s, 145. 
Nash’s grist, 144, 


327 


Mills, sketches of, Reed’s, 145. 

Sayles, 145. 

Tide, 144. 

Tirrell’s, 144, 

Vinson’s, 145. 

Waltham-Richards-Bates, 143, 144. 

erected, 27. 

Miller, Alonzo R., 236. 

Millerick, Rev. Father, 123. 

Milton (town of), 105, 171, 207. 

Ministers, rates, 100, 102, 104, 105, 
106, 107. 

sketches of, 

First Church, 157. 

Second Church, 177. 
Ministry, vote defining, 54. 
Minnesota, volunteers, 209. 
Minutemen, 60. 

Mississippi (River), 222, 225, 

(State), 222, 

Mitchell, George W., 236. 
William, 236. 
Mitten factory, 156. 
Monatiquot (River), 19. 
Money borrowed to pay soldiers, 62, 
66. 
Monopoly, measures to prevent, 62. 
Monotticut (River), 258. 
Monson Academy, 291. 
Monument, the Soldiers’, 87, 88, 90. 
Moore, Martin F., 236. 
Moran, James F., 236. 
William H., 237. 
Morgan, Thomas T., 237. 
Moriss, Jane, 282. 
Morrell, Charles A., 237. 
Charles G., 237. 
Rey. William, 23, 24, 95, 96, 157, 
182. 
Morrison, James, 237. 
Morton, Isaac, 301. 

Isaac, Jr., 301. 

Micah, 301. 

Thomas, 20, 25. 

his arrest, 25, 

Morton’s New England Memorial, 
38. 

New English Canaan, 19, 25. 
Mother country, 296, 297. 
Moulton, Harrison, 237. 

Mount Wollaston, 25, 26, 
Mowry, Jane Louise, 206. 


328 


Munroe, Alfred C., 237. 
Murphy, Eugene, 237. 
Jeremiah, 237. 
Martin, 237. 
Rev. Father, 123. 
Terence, 237. 
Timothy, 237. 
William H., 237. 
Mutual Library Association, 134. 


Nahauton (Nahawton) (Sachem), 28, 
251, 252. 
Naish (Nash), James, 263, 264, 269. 
land of, 276. 
Nantasket, 17. 
Nantucket (town of), 193. 
Narragansett fight, 163. 
Nash, Aaron P., Jr., 237. 
Alexander, 301. 
Benjamin, 52, 53. 
Caleb, 301. 
Elbridge, 237. 
Elisha, 301. 
Ezra, 301. 
Franklin A., 237. 
Henry A., Esq., 200. 
(Lieut.) Jacob, 40, 44. 
James (Naish), 52, 144, 281, 282, 
284. 
Job, 301. 
Joseph, Jr., 301. 
Moses, 301. 
Capt. Thomas, 65,70, 301. 
Timothy, 301. 
William, 282. 
William C., 237. 
Zadoc, 301. 
Nash's grist-mill, 144, 
Nashua, N. H., 209. 
Nateaunt (Nateaunte, Natahant), 
(Sachem), 28, 251, 252. 
Natick (town of), 203. 
Necessaries, prices fixed, 62. 
Neck Street, 194. 
the, 256, 264. 
New Bedford (city of), 147. 
Methodist Episcopal Conference, 
118, 
turnpike, 147. 
New County, 48, 49, 53, 74. 
New England, 18, 22, 51, 157, 161, 
180, 181, 182, 247, 250, 253. 


INDEX. 


New England coast, 17, 18, 23. 

council of, 22. 

Historic, Genealogical Society, 10. 

Genealogical Register, 37, 38, 90, 

250. 

Memorial, 38. 

Morrell’s poem on, 157. 

Southern Conference, 117, 118. 

winter, 5. 

New English Canaan, 19, 25. 

New Hampshire, 30. 

New Haven, Conn., 163. 

New Jersey College, 109, 179. 

New London, N. H., 209. 

New Orleans (La.), 151, 202, 224, 
225. 

New Precinct, 46. 

New York, 30, 51, 154. 

(city of), 159, 219, 224, 295, 
Newberry: [See Newbury.] 
Newburgh, Vt., 195. 

Newbury (Newberry), Richard, 258, 
282, 283. 
land of, 260. 

(town of), 200. 

Newburyport (city of), 175, 220. 
Newland, William, 262. 
Newman, Antipas, 162. 

Hopestill, 162. 

Noah, 162. 

Richard, 161. 

Mr. (Rev.) Samuel, 7, 28, 29, 30, 98, 

105, 144, 161, 182, 183, 254, 257, 
262, 266, 268, 271, 272, 273, 275, 
277, 279, 280, 282. 

land of, 259. 

sketch of, 161. 

Samuel, Jr., 162. 

(Mrs.) Sybil, 162. 

Newport (R. I.), 70, 161. 
Newspapers, 133. 

Advance, 133. 

Courier, 133, 134. 

Gazette, 90, 133. 

Newton, Herbert A., 115. 

(town of), 189. 

Theological Seminary, 122. 

Night watch, 41. 
Nightingale, Thomas J., 237. 
Nineteenth Army Corps, 225. 
Ninth Army Corps, 221. 

Regiment, 203. 


INDEX. 229 


Ninth (school) district, 130. 
Nolan, David, 237. 
James, 237. 
Non-conformist minister, 24. 
Non-residents to be taxed, 68. 
Nordell, Rev. P. A., 122. 
Norfolk Conference, 115. 
County, 3, 13, 15, 74, 184, 197. 
History of, 1. 
District Medical Society, 198, 206. 
North Andover (church), 178. 
Anna (fight at), 219. 
Bridgewater (town of), 210, 213, 216. 
Church (Boston), 101, 165, 166. 
Church (Weymouth), 191. 
High School, 16. 
Parish, 56, 75, 104, 116, 173, 189 
Precinct, 15, 47, 50, 59, 61, 74, 75, 
128, 129. 
Street, 27. 
Village, 198, 201, 202. 
Weymonth, 16, 27, 89, 115, 120, 133, 
139, 140, 147, 151, 156, 172, 176, 
187, 188, 190, 194, 200, 201, 207, 
209, 210, 211, 212, 289. 
Depot, 192. 
Northbridge (town of), 212. 
Norton, Edward, 171. 
Elizabeth, 171, 
Elizabeth (Thaxter, 170. 
Rey. Jacob, 9, 104, 116, 171, 192. 
sketch of, 170. 
Jacob Porter, 171. 
Capt. John, 170. 
Lucy Ann, 171. 
Mary Cranch, 171. 
Mary (Porter, 170. 
Nicholas, 259, 264, 273, 278, 282. 
land of, 263. 
Richard Cranch, 171. 
Royal, 213, 237. 
Samuel, 170, 
Thomas Boylston Adams, 171. 
William Smith, 171. 
Northleigh (England), 97, 158. 
Northumberland County, Pa., 209. 
Norway, Me, 211. 
Norwich, Vt., 172. 
Nova Scotia, 53. 


Oakes, President, 165. 
Oath of allegiance, 73. 


Oatis (Otis), Widow, 267, 282, 283. 
O’Brien, Richard, 237. 
Obstetric Society, 206. 
O’Connell, Maurice, 237. 
O’Connor, John, 237. 
Timothy, 237. 
Odd Fellows, Independent Order of, 
141. 
Crescent Lodge, 141. 
Wildey Lodge, 141. 
Wompatuck Encampment, 141. 
O’Donnell, Patrick, 237. 
Ohio, 212. 
volunteers, 212, 
Old Braintree, 169. 
Colony Railroad, 15, 16, 147, 148. 
Church in First Precinct, 51. 
North Cemetery, 90, 167, 168, 195. 
North Church, 116, 191. 
Plymouth road, 145. 
South Church (Boston), 98, 163, 183. 
Spain, 27, 89, 107, 115, 119, 123, 
155, 285, 289. 
town book, 281, 
Oliver, Jonathan, 301. 
Orcutt, Augustus E., 237. 
Benjamin, 301. 
Benjamin H., 237. 
Charles, 237. 
David, 52, 
George O., 237. 
James M., 237. 
Moses, 301. 
Samuel, 52. 
William, 237. 
Orphans’ Hope Lodge, 139. 
Osborn (Ozborn), John, 282, 284. 
Osgood, George W., 237. 
Otis (Oatis), Widow, 282. 
Oxford (England), 158, 161. 
(University), 97, 98. 
Oxfordshire (England), 161. 
Oyster River, N. H., 159. 
Ozborn (Osborn), John, 256, 274. 


Pacific (Ocean), 3. 
Packard, (Rev.) Asa, 104. 
Paine, Abigail, 168. 
Berthia (Thacher, 166. 
Eunice, 168. 
Eunice (Treat, 167. 
James, 166. 


330 


Paine, Robert Treat, 168. 
Hon. Robert Treat, 167, 168, 
Thomas, 166. 

Rey. Thomas, 101, 168. 

sketch of, 166. 

Thomas, Jr., 168. 
Pamunky (fight at), 219. 
Paris (France), 204, 206. 
Parish, First, 102, 168. 

North, 56, 75, 104, 

records, 9, 10. 

Second, 108, 113. 

South, 75, 104. 

Park, Calvin E., 132, 133. 

Prof. E. A., 133. 

Parker, James, Esq., 144, 252, 253. 
Rey, John, 120. 


Mr., 258, 261, 262, 263, 264, 266, 


267, 269, 270, 273. 

Samuel, 283, 284. 
Parks, John, 237. 
Parliament, 297, 298. 
Parrott, Josiah R., 237. 
Parry, John, 237. 
Parsonage house, 99. 

property, 50, 104. 
Partridge, Capt., 172. 

Elizabeth, 163, 183. 

Rev. Ralph, 163, 183. 
Payne, John, 187. 
Peabody, Harriet, 176. 

Jacob, 176. 

Lucy (Manning, 176. 

Rey. S., 169. 

Peakes, Benjamin, 301. 
Pedman, William J., 237. 
Peirce, Sarah Robie, 210. 
Pembroke, N. H., 209. 
Pendleton, Elizabeth S., 177. 
Peninsular campaign, 220. 
Pennsylvania, 218. 

State Medical Society, 209. 


Penobscot expedition, 70, 195, 287. 


Pequod war, 11, 29, 30. 
Perkins, Capt., schoolmaster, 33. 

Jacob, 81. 

Rey. Jonas, 112. 

Capt. William, 125. 
Perrigo, Charles C., 237. 
Perry, Bertie, 203. 

Rev. E. A., 120, 121. 

George H., 237. 


INDEX. 


Perry, Helen A., 203. 
Henry, 237. 

Dr. Ira H., sketch of, 203. 
Joanna (Bullard, 203. 
Marian E., 203. 

Minnie A., 203. 

Orrin J., 203. 

Selia E., 203. 

Personal sketches, 285 to 295. 
Gen. James L. Bates, 289. 
Dea. Nathaniel Bayley, 287. 
Major James Humphrey, 285. 
James Humphrey, Esq., 288. 
Gen. Solomon Lovell, 286. 

Persons, Rich., 247. 

Peruvian Islands, 291. 

Petersburgh, Va, 222. 

Peterson, Alfred, 237. 

Pettes, I. D. Howe, 237. 


Philadelphia, Pa., 1, 59, 201, 209, 


212, 213. 
Philbrick, Stephen K., 237. 
Philip (King), 36, 40. 
war of, 36, 40. 


Phillips Academy, Andover, 175, 197, 


204, 291. 

Anna Dunn, 178. 

Deacon, 282, 283. 

Creek, 19. 

Hon. John, 172. 

Rey. John C., 105, 174, 175. 
sketch of, 172. 

John C., Jr., 173. 

Joshua, 39. 

Lewis, 237. 

Margaret W. (Hall, 173. 

(Phillipes), Martin, 273. 
land of, 272. 

Miriam W. (Rollins, 173. 


(Phillipes), Nicholas, 255, 256, 260, 


266, 272. 
Richard, 284. 
Ensign, Richard, 44. 


Wendell, Esq., sketch of, Rev. J. C. 


Phillips, 172. 


Physicians of Weymouth, 48, 286. 


sketches of, 180 to 213. 
Pierce, David J., 237. 

Eliot C., 237. 
Pigwacket Indians, 50. 
Pike, William, 237. 
Pilgrim Church, 107. 


a ee 


INDEX. 


Pilgrim Church and Society, sketch of, 
115. 
Lodge (K. of H.), sketch of, 141, 142. 
wharf, 195. 
Pilgrims, the, 3, 4, 18, 19, 21, 23, 29. 
jealousy of, 29. 
Piper, Dr. Oliver P., sketch of, 209. 
Eleanor G., 209. 
Anna Eliza (Eshleman, 209. 
Pittey, Hannah, 287. 
Hannah (Reed, 287. 
James, 287. 
Pitty (Pytty), William, 262, 265, 271, 
281, 282, 283. 
land of, 259. 
Pittsfield (town of), 203. 
Plaine, the, 254, 255, 256, 257, 260, 
262, 267, 272, 273, 274, 275, 277. 
Plains of Abraham, 52. 
Pleasant Street, 123, 145, 178, 193. 
Plymouth authorities, 25. 
Colony, 4, 7, 38, 158, 164. 
Colony line, 26. 
Company, 3, 18, 19, 22. 
County, 3. 
governor of, 24, 
people, 21. 
road, 145. 
(town of), 2, 3, 6, 7, 13, 18, 19, 20, 
21, 23, 24, 25, 36, 49, 76, 95, 146, 
180, 181, 182, 200. 
Point Judith, 225. 
Pokanoket, 36. 
Polley, Mr., loan of guns from, 60. 
Ponchatrain, Lake, 225. 
Pond, Fresh, 27. 
Great, 13, 14,143, 145, 151, 152, 153. 
Henry V., 237. 
Hucklebury, 278. 
Street, 184. 
the, 265, 268, 270, 271, 276, 277, 278, 
279, 281. 
Whitman's, 13, 14, 27, 32, 34, 48, 
144, 152. 
Whortleberry, 14, 152, 
Pool, Benjamin, 39. 
Isaac, 52. 
Samuel B, 238. 
Poole, Edward, 248, 256, 259, 261, 269, 
281, 282, 283. 
land of, 257. 
Poor, support of, 49, 50. 


331 


Pope, Charles A., 238. 
Clinton F., 238. 
General, 217, 221, 
Warren W., 238. 

Poplar Spring Church, 223. 

Population, the early, 31. 
increase of, 94. 

Port Hudson, 225. 

Porter, Deliverance (Byram, 182. 
Lieut. Ebenezer, 138. 
Emily A., 206. 

Emily (Vining, 206. 

Hiram, 238. 

Rey. Huntington, 103. 

Jacob, 301. 

John, 146, 182, 250. 

Ensign John, 138. 

Jonathan K., 238. 

Richard, 170, 250, 255, 265, 268, 279, 
281, 282, 284. 

Mary (Porter, 170. 

Micah, 3801. 

Thomas, 301. 

Capt. Thomas, 301. 

Thomas B., 206. 

Whitcomb, 149. 

Portland, Me., 196. 

Medical School, 210. 

Portsmouth, N. H., 159, 171. 

Post 15, G. A. R., 139. 
office, the first, 77. 
offices, 15, 16. 

Potomac, Army of, 85. 
(River), 218, 221. 

Pound, the, 274. 

Powers, Peter, 238. 

Pratt, Abiah, 301. 
Abner, 285. 

Asa B., 238. 
Benjamin, 301. 
Benjamin, 2d, 238. 
Gen. Benjamin F., 85, 139, 220, 238. 
Benjamin F., 2d, 238. 
Benjamin F., 3d, 238. 
Betty (French, 188. 
Charles, 238. 

Chester D., 238. 

Clarissa Lothrop, 208. 
Cushing, 301. 

. Daniel, 301. 

David, 301. 

Widow Deborah, 288. 


332 


Pratt, Ephraim, 301. 
Francis B., 238. 
Francis S., 238. 
George H., 238. 
George Hiram, 238, 
George W., 141. 
Henry, 238. 
Henry F., 238. 
Ichabod, 188, 301. 
James, 238, 301. 
John, 283. 
John, Jr., 301. 
J. Quincy, 238. 
Joseph, 52. 
Joshua, 301. 
Josiah H., 238. 
Laban, 301. 
Leander, 238, 
Leonard, 238. 
Leonard F., 238. 
Macuth (Marcuth), 282, 283. 
Matthew, 263, 265, 269, 283, 301. 
land of, 265. 
Nehemiah, 301. 
Phinehas, narrative of, 19, 21. 
Samuel, 238. 
Samuel, Jr., 301. 
Silvanus, 301. 
Solomon, 301. 
Sergt. Thomas, killed, 39. 
Thomas, 282, 283. 
Pray, Samuel, 238. 
Precinct, First, 51. 


North, 15, 47, 50, 59, 61, 74, 75, 128, 


129. 

Second, 50, 58, 101, 108. 

South, 15, 50, 54, 58, 61, 75, 128. 
Preparations for war, 60. 
President Lincoln, 83, 216, 220, 292. 
Prices of necessaries fixed, 62, 66. 
Priest (Prist), James, 273, 283, 284, 

land of, 272. 

Prince, Rev. Thomas, 157. 
Prince’s Annals, 96, 157. 
Princeton College, 209. 

Seminary, 171. 

Property owners, 32, 34, 254. 

records, 32, 34, 254. 
Protestant Methodist Church, 116. 
Prouty, Elijah, 238. 

Oliver B., 238. 

Providence, R. I., 208. 


INDEX. 


Province, the, 296. 
Provinces, the, 298. 
Provincial Congress, representatives 
to, 60. 
Convention, 58. 
Provisions, procuring of, 67, 68, 69. 
Pry, Thomas W., 238. 
Public schools, sketch of, 125 to 132. 
record office (London), 250. 
Puffer, James E., 238. 
Pulpit, the Weymouth, 28, 167, 168. 
Puritan party, 28. 
Puritans, the, 29, 42, 43, 97. 
Putillow, Frank A., 238. 
Pythias, Knights of, sketch of, 141. 
Pytty. [See Pitty.] 


Quakers, 159, 163. 
Quebec, 52. 
Quincy, Elizabeth, 169. 
Elizabeth (Norton, 169. 
Col. John, 169. 
Lucy, 192. 
(town of), 16, 79, 120, 121, 147, 167, 
169, 192, 205, 287. 
(transport), 224. 
Quinn, Jeremiah, 238. 


Railroad, Old Colony, 15, 16, 147, 
148, 
South Shore, 15, 16, 147. 
Rainge, the, 259. 
Rand, James W., 238. 
John, 260, 
Randall, Martin L., 238. 
(Randoll), Robert, 254, 269, 271, 
283. 
land of, 258. 
Randolph (town of), 79. 
Rates, assessment of, 33. 
Rawlines (Rawlin, Rawling, Raw- 
linges), Thomas, 257, 262, 266, 
274, 277, 280. 
land of, 277. 
Rawson, Hon. Edward, 164. 
Mary, 164. 
Ray, William N., 238. 
Raymond, Alvah, 142. 
Bela T., 238. 
Benjamin, 238. 
Charles W.., 238. 
Horace B., 238. 


INDEX. 


Raymond, James G., 238. 
PE Ze. 

Thomas W., 238. 
Walter B., 238. 

Raynham (town of), 109. 

Rea, John D., 238. 
William M., 238. 

Read, Hanna, 248. 

Susan, 248. 
William, 248, 

Reade (Read), John, 255, 266, 278, 281. 

(Read), Philip, 256, 263, 281, 283. 
land of, 266. 

(Read), William, 26, 40, 257, 258, 

267, 268, 270, 271, 274, 277, 280. 

deed to, 280. 
land of, 257, 261. 

Widow, 282, 283. 

Zakery, 268. 

Readville, camp at, 223, 225, 

Reamy, Joseph, 239. 

Rebellion record, sketch of the, 83. 
difficulties of compiling, 214. 
sources of information, 214, 215. 
plan of record, 215. 
companies enrolled, 215, 
in what regiments, 215. 
their character and reputation, 

215. 
commencement of, 83. 
call for volunteers, 83. 
public meeting, 83. 
soldiers enlisted, 83. 
raising money, 83, 84, 85. 
record of soldiers to be kept, 84. 
pay of soldiers, 84. 
bounties, 84, 86, 87. 
aid to families, 84, 85. 
second company raised, 85. 
town bonds, 85. 
third company raised, 85. 
defective enrolment, 86. 
difficulties in raising men, 86. 
contributions, 86. 
return of Company H, 12th Regi- 
ment, 87. 
fourth company raised, 87. 
more bounties, 87. 
end of the war, 88. 
losses, etc., 88. 
summary of the town’s service, 88. 
statistics, 88. 


333 


Rebellion, further record, with list of 
men, 214 to 246. 
war of, 292. 
Reckards, Winslow M., 239. 
Record, John, 39. 
Records, church, 9, 10, 103, 172. 
colonial, 10. 
court, 10. 
General Court, 15, 26, 27, 29, 30, 40, 
44, 47. 
of contemporaneous writers, 10. 
of the council, 45. 
parish, 9, 10. 
rebellion, 11, 214. 
State, 10. 
town, 9, 10, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 
35, 41, 42, 43, 45, 47, 51, 53, 54, 
55, 82, 169. 
war, ll. 
Redmond, Charles S., 239. 
Reed (Read, Reade). [See Asa, 301.] 
Rey. Charles E., 115. 
Ezra, 145, 301. 
Franklin, 239, 
Geneaology, 162. 
John, 38. 
John, 3d, 301. 
Josiah (Bates & Reed), 291. 
Matthew, 239. 
Quincy L., Esq., 143. 
Salmon, 239, 
Samuel, 129, 301. 
Samuel W., Esgq., 123. 
Thomas, 239. 
William, 145, 146. 
Reed's Mill, sketch of, 145. 
Reform Club, 142. 
Rehoboth, emigration to, 29,30, 98, 
161, 280. 
Bliss’s History of, 30. 
(town of), 162. 
Remington, Foster, 239. 
Rennard, Henry F., 239. 
Reno's brigade, 221. 
Representatives, 61. 
House of, 296. 
instructions to, 63, 296. 
to be paid for services, 74. 
Revolution, 11. 
War of (Revolutionary War), 51, 
55, 56, 69, 193, 286, 287. 
sketch of, 55. 


334 


Revolution, arbitrary measures of 
the Crown, 55. 
town action, 56. 
agents to meet in Boston, 56. 
committees of correspondence, 57. 
tax on tea, 57. 
effect of the tax, 57. 
votes on the resolutions of Congress, 
58. 
refusal to pay taxes to the royal 
treasurer, 59. 
town committee of correspondence, 
393 
minute-men, 60. 
preparations for war, 60. 
raising troops, 61. 
Leclaration of Independence, 62, 
bounties to soldiers, 62. 
instructions to Gen. Lovell, 63. 
scarcity of men, 65. 
State convention, 66. 
State constitution, 67. 
procuring men and provisions, 67. 
soldiers sent to Hull, 69. 
end of the war, 69. 
cost to the town in men and money, 
69, 70, 71. 
effects of, 72. 
slow recovery from, 72. 
Revolutionary army, 194. 
soldiers in, 300. 
Reynolds, John, 283. 
Gen. John F., 139. 
Post, G. A. R., 1389, 289, 294, 
William H., 239. 
Rhode Island, 30, 70, 205. 
campaign, 70, 286. 
Rice, Josiah, 301. 
Stephen L., 239. 
Urban, 239. 
William, 52. 
William P., 239. 
Richards, Abigail (Thayer, 187. 
Abigail, 187. 
Augustus J., 199. 
Benjamin, 52, 53, 187. 
Dr. Benjamin, 187, 189, 190. 
sketch of, 187. 
Benjamin F., 239. 
Charles L., 239. 
Charles N., 239. 
David P., 239. 


INDEX. 


Richards, E. E., 140. 

Elias, Esq., 134. 

Elizabeth Gardner (Wolcott, 199. 

Ephraim, 187 

Family (Genealogy), 187. 

George C., 199. 

George W., 239. 

Jacob, 199. 

Dr. Jacob, sketch of, 199. 

James, 2d, 288. 

Joane, 257. 

Joanna, 187. 

Joanna (Hunt, 187. 

John, 253. 

Joseph, 38. 

Lydia (Colson, 199. 

Mary, 187. 

Mary Gardner, 199. 

Mr., 257, 263, 265. 

Mill, Mrs., 281. 

Nathaniel, 288. 

Peter Hunt, 187. 

Ruth, 187. 

Samuel M., 239. 

Sarah, 187. 

Sarah Ann, 199. 

Susannah Lincoln, 199. 

Thomas, 144. 

(Richardes), Thomas, land of, 277. 

Wealthean, 144, 

(Richardes), William, 52, 254, 556, 
257, 258, 259, 270, 272, 279, 283, 
284, 

land of, 274. 
William H., 239. 
Richardson, Emery, 239. 

BP:, 239. 
Rider, Thomas, 
282. 

Riley, Michael, 239. 
Timothy, 239, 
Ripley, William, Jr., 301. 
Ritchie, Henry, 239. 
River (Riuer), Back, 13, 14, 15, 17, 
26, 47,144, 147, 265, 266, 273, 275. 

Connecticut, 37. 

Fore, 13, 14, 15, 26, 147, 154. 

Fresh, 26. 

Marsh, 145. 

Mill, 14, 143, 265, 278. 

old swamp, 14. 

the, 265, 267, 275, 277, 278. 


256, 261, 272, 277, 


INDEX. 


Riverside, Cal., 202. 
Roach, Rev. Father, 122, 123. 
Roachman, John, 239. 
Roads, built early, 27. 
Robbins, Charles, H., 239. 
Christopher C., 239, 
Robinson, Benjamin F., 239. 
Wilber F., 239. 
William H., 239. 
Rockwood, Elisha R., 239, 
Rev. Samuel L., 115. 
Rocky Hill, 265. 
Roddan, Rev. Father, 122. 
Roe, Hugh, 259, 264, 265, 268, 276, 
282, 283. 
Rogers, Daniel F., 239. 
(Rogeres), Deacon, 271, 282. 
Rogers’ Hall, 113. 
(Rogeres), James, 259, 282. 
(Rogeres), John, 253, 256, 267, 271, 
274, 275, 281, 283. 
land of, 266. 
Dea. John, town clerk, 33. 
President, 165. 
Rolie, Ebenezer, 128. 
Rollins, Dr. W. H., 173. 
Roman Catholic Church, sketch of,122. 
Rosenfeld, Edward, 194. 
Ross, Samuel J., 239. 
Round Island, 15, 266, 268. 
ceded to Weymouth, 29. 
Marsh, 259. 
Rowe, Rev. C. H., 122. 
James, 239. 
Rowland, Richard, 257. 
Rowley, Edward, 239. 
Roxbury (town of), 27, 97, 109, 160, 
161, 177, 220. 
Royal Arcanum, 142. 
College of Surgeons, 206. 
Ophthalmic Hospital, 206. 
Rozary, Silas, 301. 
Ruggles, George, 239. 
Russ, Richard, wounded soldier, 41. 
Russell, Rev. Jonathan, 166. 
Ryan, John, 239. 
Timothy, 239. 


Sables, Cape, 152. 

Saco, Me., 160. 

Sacred Heart, parish of, sketch of, 123. 
Safford, Mr., 292. 


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Saint. (See St.] 
Sale, Edward, 273, 279. 
Salem, tax of, 25. 

(town of), 60, 158, 163. 
Salisbury (Eng.), 162, 183. 

(Saulsbury), Stephen, 52. 

William, 52. 

Salmon, Catherine Louisa, 169. 

Salt Marsh, 254, 256, 257, 258, 259, 
261, 262, 265, 266, 267, 269, 270, 
271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 277, 279. 

Saltonstall, Commodore, 70, 287. 

Sampson, John M,, 239, 

San Francisco (Cal.), 291. 

Sanborn, Dr. William, 195, 

Sanders, John, 20, 182. 

Sandy Hook, Md., 217. 

Sanitary Commission, 205. 

Santa Barbara County, Cal., 203. 

Sargent, Edward W., 239. 

George W., 239. 

Walter H., 239. 
Saulsbury, Stephen, 52. 
Savage's Winthrop, 25. 
Sawyer, Rev. R. T., 121. 
Saxon (transport), 224. 
Sayle’s Mill, 145. 

Schedule of town expense, the first, 80. 
School committee, 197. 

matters, Capt. Perkins, 33. 
School-masters. 

Edward Bate, 127. 

James Blake, 128, 

John Calder, 128. 

William Chard, 125, 126. 

John Copp, 126, 127. 

Lemuel Cushing, 128. 

Joseph Dyer, 127. 

John Galt, 128. 

James Humphrey, 3d, 129. 

Samuel Hunt, 127. 

John King, 127. 

Capt. William Perkins, 125. 

Samuel Reed, 129. 

Ebenezer Rolie, 128. 

Thomas Thornton, 127. 

John Torrey, 127, 

Joseph Torrey, 128. 

Ebenezer White, 127. 

Ezra Whitmarsh, 128, 

David Wyre, 128. 

Schools, cost of, 93. 


336 


Schools, public, sketch of, 125 to 182. 
Schuylkill County Hospital, 209. 
County Medical Association, 209. 
Haven, Pa., 209. 
Scituate (town of), 49, 120, 163, 183. 
Scully, John, 239. 
Sea (the), 255, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 
264, 266, 267, 268, 269, 271, 272, 
273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 279. 
Seal, the town, 85. 
Second (Army) Corps, 222. 
Brigade, 225. 
Congregational Church, 294. 
Church, 107, 177, 179. 
sketch of, 108. 
Division, 197. 
Division, 19th Army Corps, 225. 
Parish, 113. 
Precinct, 101, 108. 
Regiment, 193, 197. 
N. H. Regiment, 226. 
(school) district, 130. 
U.S. Artillery, 226. 
Sedar (cedar) swamp, 273. 
Selectmen, 253. 
first named, 33. 
powers of, 33. 
to dine at the town’s charge, 42. 
Senate, State, 285. 
Shaler, Gen., 209. 
Shannahan, Jeremiah, 239. 
William, 239. 
Sharon (town of), 212. 
Shaw, Abraham, 182. 
Abram, 39. 
Augustus E., 239. 
Austin B., 239. 
Caleb, 301. 
E. Faxon, 240. 
George, 240. 
Rey. George Wallace, 16. 
Gilbert M., 240. 
Jeremiah, 145. 
John, 282, 283. 
Rev. John, 102, 169. 
Joseph, 255, 258, 261, 263. 
land of, 255. 
Nathaniel, 301. 
Capt. Nathaniel, 138. 
Nathaniel & Co., 291. 
Orren, 200. 
Susannah, 182. 


INDEX. 


Shawmut, 24. 
Shaw’s, John, 128. 
Sheafe, Jacob, 163. 

Margaret (Webb, 163. 
Sheep Island, 15. 

Shehan, Dennis, 240. 
Shelburne Falls Academy, 177. 
Sheldonville (town of), 122. 
Shepheard, Humfrey, 249. 
Shepherd, Joseph E., 240. 
Sheppard, Joel F., 141. 
Shepperd, Ralph, 255, 257. 
Shergold, Nehemiah, 240. 
Sherman, Cyrus, 145. 

E. & C., 145. 

Elon, 145. 

Gen. W. T., 225. 
Shetucket (transport), 224. 
Ship building, 155. 

Island, 224. 

Shoals, Isle of, 158. 

Shove, Rev. George, 162. 

Shuttlesworth, (Rev.) Samuel, 103. 

Sillanoua, Capt., 265. 

Silvester (Siluester), Richard, 254, 
255, 256, 257, 258, 263, 266, 275, 280. 

land of, 267. 

Simpson, Oliver E., 240. 
Simstuly (England), 249. 
Skinner, Rev. G. W., 120. 

Robert G., 240. 
Slack, Francis K., 141. 

Rev. Samuel R., 124. 
Slason, William T., 240. 
Slatterly, Edward, 240. 

John G., 240. 

Patrick, 240. 

Smal] lots, 281. 
Small-pox aud measles, guide to, 163, 
184. 

regulations, 74. 

Smelt (Smilt) Brook, 26, 49, 79. 
Smiledge, Alfred H., 240. 

John §., 240. 

Smilt [see Smelt] Brook, 253. 
Smith, Abigail, 90, 169. 

Abigail (Fowle, 168. 

Bernard, 240. 

Cornelius, 240. 

Edward, 256, 257, 258, 263, 275. 

deed from, 280. 
land of, 268. 


INDEX. 


Smith, Elizabeth, 169. 
Elizabeth (Quincy, 169. 
Frank, 240. 
James, 240, 266, 271, 281, 282. 
land of, 262. 
James, Jr., 283. 
James, Sr., 283, 284. 
Jason, Jr., 240. 
John, 240 
John, 2d, 240. 
Mary, 169. 
Rey. Matthew Hale, 118. 
Richard B., 240. 
William, 168, 169, 254, 256, 258, 259, 
269, 274, 280. 
land of, 270. 
Rey. William, 8, 9, 101, 103, 168, 
169, 170, 171. 
sketch of, 168. 
William W., 240. 
Smith's, 79. 
Smyth, Rev. Father, 123. 
Snell, William, 240. 
Snooke, James, 261, 270, 272, 274. 
land of, 273. 
Widow, 283. 
Social libraries, 134. 
Societies and associations, sketches 
of, 139 to 142. 
Soldiers in the Revolution, list of, 300. 
enrolment of, 60, 


to be hired from out of town, 
61, 63. 


not to be drafted, 64. 
further call for, 65. 
pay of, 65, 66, 68, 69. 
new method of raising, 65, 68. 
to be drafted, 67. 
sent to Hull, 69, 
number of losses, 70. 
in French and Indian wars, 51, 52. 
in King Philip War, 30, 38, 39, 40. 
in Pequod War, 30. 
in War of 1812-15, 77. 
Soldiers’ Monument, 87, 88, 90. 
record in the Rebellion, 214 to 243, 
Somerby, H. G., note from, 250. 
Somerset, county of, Eng., 96, 247, 
248, 
Somersetshire, Eng., 158, 162, 
Soule [see Sale], Edward, 281. 
South Abington Church, 121. 


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South Boston, 124. 

Boston Ice Company, sketch of, 153. 

Church, 179. 

Mountain (battle of), 217, 221. 

Parish, 56, 104, 287, 291. 

statistics, 75, 82. 

Precinct, 47, 54, 58, 61, 70, 128, 

Shore Commandery, 140. 

Shore Railroad, 15, 16, 147. 

village, 202, 213. 

Weymouth, 89, 108, 113, 119, 184, 

138, 141, 147, 149, 151, 156, 178, 
179, 185, 193, 194, 197, 198, 199, 
200, 207, 208, 209, 213, 289, 292, 
294, 295. 
Weymouth, First National Bank of 
294, 
sketch of, 149. 
Weymouth Savings Bank, sketch 
of, 149. 
Southampton, Eng., 162, 183. 
Spaulding, M. D., 292. 
Spear, Albert A., 240. 

Charles H., 240. 

Rey. John M., 119, 

Josiah Q., 240. 

Richard, 240. 

Spencer, Jeremiah, 240. 
Spinney, Harris H., 240. 
Spooner and Webster, 134. 

Mr., 134. 

William A., 240. 
Spottsylvania (battle of), 218. 
Springer, Samuel B., 240. 

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 199. 

St. Bartholomew Act, 159. 

St. Buryan, Eng., 159. 

St. Edmund's Hall (college), 161. 

St. Hdmund’s, Salisbury, Eng., 162, 
183. 

St. Francis Xavier College, N. B., 
211. 

Xavier, parish of, sketch of, 122. 
St. Jerome, parish of, sketch of, 123. 
St. John’s, N. B., 213. 

St. Mary’s Hall (college), 158, 

Stackpole, Oliver B., 240, 

Stamp Act, 296, 298. 

Stamping and gilding establishment, 
156. 

Standish, Capt. Miles, 20, 21, 25, 182, 

Stansbury, Elizabeth, 213. 


338 INDEX. 


Stanton, Rev. George F., 108, 111, 
294, 
Staple, Jeffrey (Jeffry, Jeffery, Jeff- 
eray), 254, 261, 264, 270, 282. 
land of, 271. 
John, 270, 282, 283. 
land of, 267. 
Widow, 282, 284, 
Starbuck, George, 240. 
State archives, 10, 37, 39, 40, 41, 44, 52. 

constitution, 67. 

convention at Cambridge, 66. 

Convention (Baptist), 122. 

election, the first, 68. 

House, 10, 300. 

records, 10. 

Eenate, 285. 

Street (Boston), 216. 
Stedman, Lieut.-Col. Joseph, 224. 
Stepping stone, the, 257. 
Stevens, James H., 240. 
Stewart, James, 126. 

Stiles, Major Frederick G., 224, 

President, 163. 

Stoddard, Addison, 240. 

Elbridge I., 240. 

Henry A., 240. 

John H., 240. 

Sargent L., 240. 

Stone (Ston), Robert, 261, 282. 

William E., 240. 

Stoneham (town of), 186. 
Stoughton, Capt. Israel, 160, 161. 
(town of), 120, 216. 
Major William, 41. 
Stow (town of), 59. 
Stowell, Ruth, 188. 
Strangers not encouraged, 32. 
Streame, Thomas, 257, 268, 271, 274, 
282, 283. 
Widow, 257, 262, 282. 
Street, Rev. T. W., 124. 
(Streete), the, 255, 257, 261, 268, 
272, 373, 276,277. 
Stuart, James, 40. 
Sturgis'’s division, 221. 
Suffolk County, 15, 41, 48, 49, 74. 

Probate records, 186. 

(records) deeds, 28, 251, 253. 
Sullivan, Gen., 286. 

Summer Street (Boston), 216. 
Sumner, Gen. W. H., 80. 


Sumter, (attack on), 216. 
(fort), 83. 
Superintendent of schools, 131. 
Supreme Court, 106, 173. 
Surplus revenue, 80. 
Sutton, Reuben, 240. 
Swampe, the, 254, 255, 256, 257, 
258, 259, 260, 264, 266, 267, 268, 
269, 272, 273, 276, 278. 
Swan, Gideon R., 240, 
(ship), 19. 
Swanzey, attack upon, 36. 
Sweares, Henry, 240. 
Sweeny, Robert, 240. 
Sweeting, Putnam L., 240. 
Swivel guns, 60. 
Symmes, Widow Mary, 164. 
William, 164. 
Rey. Zechariah, 161. 


Tabor, Anna, 248. 
Jane, 248. 
Sarah, 248, 
Timothy, 247. 
Tannery, land granted to John Tor- 
rey for, 45. 
Tanning business, 155. 
Tardiness at town meetings fined, 33. 
Taunton (city of), 115, 162. 
Tax to pay soldiers, 61, 62, 63, 67, 69. 
Taxes abated by the General Court, 
40. 
assessments to be notified, 33, 66. 
colonial, 25. 
lists of polls and property to be 
brought in, 33, 66. 
payment of, refused to the royal 
treasurer, 58, 59. 
Taylor, John, 262, 272, 282, 283. 
land of, 260. 
Joseph F., 240. 
Sarah, 203. 
Tea, action regarding, 57. 
Telegraph, 148. 
Telephone, 148. 
Temperance organizations, 142. 
Temple of Honor, 142. 
Reform Club, 142. 
Good Templars, 142. 
Woman’s Christian Temperance 
Union, 142. 
Temple of Honor, 142. 


INDEX. 


Tenth (school) district, 130. 
Terry, Rev. Calvin, 115. 

Rev. James P., 110, 111. 
Thacher, Anthony, 163, 183. 

Elizabeth, 163. 

Elizabeth (Partridge, 163, 183. 

Margaret (Webb-Sheaffe, 163. 

Patience, 163. 

Peter, 163. 

Rey. Peter, 100, 101, 162, 183. 

sketch of, 165. 
Ralph or Rodolphus, 163. 
Rev. Thomas (Mr.), 8, 28, 98, 99, 
100, 183, 189, 282. 
sketch of, 162. 

Thomas, Jr., 163, 165. 
“Thanksgiving day, put by,” 43. 
Thatch, regulations respecting, 27, 32. 
Thaxter, Dr., 195. 

Capt. Samuel, 51, 52, 286. 
Thayer, Abigail, 187. 

Barnabas, 301. 

Ebenezer, 301. 

Ephraim, 187. 

George R., 240. 

John, 801. 

John Q. A., 241. 

Joseph W., 241. 

Josiah, 288. 

Col. Minot, 198. 

Nathaniel A., 241. 

N. W., 241. 

Obadiah, Jr., 301. 

Samuel G., 241. 

Sarah (Bass, 187. 

Stillman, 241. 

Solomon, 301. 

Watson, 241. 

William G., 241. 

Third Church, Boston (Old South), 98. 

Regiment, Minnesota volunteers, 

209. 
Thirty-fifth Regiment, 85, 87, 215, 
226. 

sketch of, 220. 

where gathered, 220. 

when organized, 220. 

mustered into service, 220. 

in the field, 220. 

first fighting, 221. 

second campaign, 221. 

Western campaign, 222. 


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Thirty-fifth Regiment, down the 
Mississippi, 222. 

wilderness campaign, 222. 

before Petersburg, 222. 

home again, 228. 

statistics, 223, 
Thirty-ninth Regiment, 219. 
Thirty-seventh Regiment, 226. 
Thirty-third Regiment, 218, 293. 
Thomas, Albert, 241. 

Allen, 241. 

Benjamin F., 241. 

Edwin, 241. 

Edwin, 2d, 241. 

Francis L., 241. 

Henry A., 135. 

Isaac, 241. 

John, 241, 288. 

Leonard, 241. 

Minot A., 241. 

Nelson, 241, 

Prince, 301. 
Thomaston, Me., 202. 
Thompson, C. G., 140. 

Harrison G., 241. 

John [see Tomson], 282, 2838, 

Josiah, Jr., 241. 

Sumner, 241. 

Zenas M., 241. 
Thornton, Thomas, 127. 
Thoroughfare Gap (battle of), 217. 
Thoroughgood, Edw., 250. 
Throat ail, 193. 

distemper, 50, 103. 
Tide Mill, sketch of, 144. 
Tilden, Atherton W., 128, 124, 155. 
Timber, preservation of, 82. 
Tinkham, Augusta Louise (Trask, 

210. 

Dr. Granville Wilson, sketch of, 210. 

Maude C., 210. 

Oliver G., 210. 
Tirrell, Abel, 288. 

Albert H., 241. 

Albert J., 241. 

Alfred W., 241. 

Augustus, 241. 

Benjamin, 52, 301. 

Betsey (Whitmarsh, 295, 

Charles Q., 212. 

Clara J., 212. 

Deborah, 289. 


340 INDEX. 


Tirrell, Deborah (Loud, 288. 
E. P., 241. 
Ebenezer, 52, 301. 
Ebenezer, Jr., 241. 
Edwin F., 241. 
Francis B., 241. 
Franklin, 241. 
Frederic N., 212. 
George E., 212. 
George W., 241. 
Gideon, 144. 
Capt. James, 295. 
John W., 241. 
Capt. Joseph, 153. 
Levi, 241. 

Major, 241. 
Mary Jane, 295. 
Nathan T., 212. 
Norton, 212. 


Dr. Norton Quincy, sketch of, 212. 


Susan Jane (French, 212. 

Thomas, 69, 301. 

Warren, 241. 

Winfield B., 241. 
Tirrell’s Hall, 122. 

Mill, 73, 145, 155. 

sketch of, 144. 

Title deed of the town, 27, 251. 
Titus, Rev. Anson, Jr., 119, 120, 121. 

(Tytus), Robert, land of, 274, 
Todd's Tavern (battle of), 218. 
Tomalty, Owen, 241. 
Tomsonn (Thompson), John, 270. 
Toombs, Eliot L., 241. 
Torrie. [See Torrey.] 
Torrey, Ann, 285. 

Appleton H., 241. 

Benjantin F., 241. 

Charles D., 241. 

Charles L., 241. 

Charlotte I., 200. 

Dr. David, sketch of, 199. 

David F., 200. 

Deborah (Fitch, 193. 

Dolly (Blanchard, 199. 

Edward M., 200. 

Fogg &, 291. 

James, 193. 

Dr. James, 289. 

sketch of, 192. 
James Gorham, 198. 
James L,, 241. 


Torrey, John, 127, 285. 


granted land for a tan-yard, 45. 

Jonathan, 301. 

(Torrie), Joseph, 128, 259, 275. 

Joseph E., 241. 

Joshua, Jr., 301. 

Joshua L., 241. 

Lavinia, 194. 

Lorenzo, 241. 

Lucinda, 194. 

Maria Stillman (Balsh, 200. 

Mary J., 200. 

Mary (Symes, 285. 

Dea. Micajah, 193. 

Dea. Micajah, Jr., 193. 

(Torrie), Mr., 259, 267, 268, 271, 
279. 

Naaman, 242. 

Naaman, Jr., 242. 

Nancy, 194. 

Noah, 301. 

Noah, Hsq., 199. 

Noah W,, 242. 

Rev. Reuben, 194. 

Richard L., 242. 

Richmond, 242. 

Dea. Samuel, 199. 

Rey. Samuel, 99, 100, 101, 157, 165, 
290. 

sketch of, 164. 

Samuel S., 200. 

Sarah, 193, 289. 

(Mrs.) Sarah, 193. 

Sarah (Nash, 193. 

Sumner F., 242. 

Susan, 194. 

Susan (White, 193. 

(Mrs.) Susanna, 193. 

Turner, 242. 

William, recorder, 34. 

(Capt. Mr.) William, 34, 37, 38, 
39,40, 44, 99, 164, 193, 253, 284, 
285, 289. 

land of, 265. 


Totman, Elmer H., 242. 


Irving J., 242. 


Tower, Carrie A., 208. 


Dr. Charles Carroll, 197. 
sketch of, 207. 

Charlotte B., 208. 

Clarissa Lothrop (Pratt, 208. 

Helen M., 208. 


INDEX. 


Tower, Ruth N., 208. 
Town affairs, 41. 
attempt to divide, 74, 75, 81, 89. 
bonds, 85, 87. 
books, 35. 
boundaries, 26, 45. 
clerk, 33. 
compensation of, 34, 
commons [see Commons], 34, 49, 
50. 
expenditures, 93. 
first annual meeting, 33. 
government, 31. 
growth of, 93. 
hall, 82, 123. 
historical committee, 1. 
lines, 78, 79. 
meetings, when and how called, 31, 
33, 41, 42. 
officers, 32, 41. 
pay of, 81. 
opposes roads and bridges, 76. 
population of, 94. 
“presented” to the General Oourt, 
34. 
records, 9, 10, 27, 28, 29, 32, 33, 
34, 35, 41, 42, 43, 45, 47, 51, 53, 
54, 55, 178, 186, 187, 251, 254, 
281. 
to be copied, 82. 
regulations, 48. 
report of expenses printed, 80, 
school expenditures, 93. 
seal, 85. 
valuation, 94. 
Townsend, William, 242. 
Townsmen, 33, 253. 
to report, 33. 
Tracy, Patrick, 242. 
Traders (early coast), 3, 17. 
Trask, Augusta Louise, 210. 
Joseph, 242. 
Trayning Greene, 254, 256. 
Treat, Abigail (Willard, 167. 
Eunice, 167. 
Col. Robert, 167. 
Rey. Samuel, 167. 
Trinity College, 161. 
Parish, sketch of, 123. 
Troops, raising of, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 
66, 67, 68. 
Trott, Charles R., 242. 


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Trouble in the church, 28, 97. 
Trufant, David, 301. 
Edgar H., 242. 


Edward F., 242. 
(Truefant), Capt. Joseph, 52, 71, 
301. 


Joshua, 301. 


Tuck, Lorenzo, 213. 


Mrs. Dr., 213. 
Tufts, Dr. Cotton, 51, 53, 56,57, 59, 
60, 61, 63, 64, 70, 71, 73, 77, 135, 
195, 286, 296. 
sketch of, 190. 
Cotton Jr., 182, 185, 192. 
Library rooms, 134, 
Library, sketch of, 135. 
Lucy (Quincy, 192. 
Peter, 190. 
Capt. Peter, 190. 
place, 188. 
Quincy, 135. 
Simon, 190. 
Dr. Simon, 190. 
Dr. Simon, Jr., 190. 
Susan, 135. 
Susanna (Warner, 192. 
Turner, Jacob, 302. 
Micah, Jr., 302. 
Waldo, 242. 
Turnpike, Hingham and Quincy, 79, 
147. 
New Bedford, 147. 
Plymouth, 76. 
Weymouth and Braintree, 132, 146. 
Twelfth (Webster) Regiment, 83, 87, 
215, 226, 289, 292. 
sketch of, 216. 
organization, 216. 
mustered into the service, 216. 
delays, 216. 
first service, 217. 
battles, 217. 
heavy fighting, 217, 218. 
closing campaign, 218. 
mustering out, 219. 
statistics, 219. 
(Webster) Regiment Association, 
294, 
resolutions of, 294, 295. 
Twenty-ninth Regiment, 226. 
Twenty-second Army Corps, 226. 
Regiment, 205. 


342 


Twenty-third Co., Heavy Artillery 
226. 
Two hundred and fiftieth anniversary 
of the settlement of the town, 91. 
Tyler, Rev. A. H., 116. 
Rey. William, 109. 
Tyndall, John, 242. 
Tytus (Titus), Robert, land of, 274. 


Union Church of South Weymouth, 
110, 111. 
sketch of, 113. 
Church of Weymouth and Brain- 
tree, 107, 118, 123. 
sketch of, 111. 
Guards, 84. 
Hall, 121. 
Medical and Surgical Association, 
206, 208, 211. 
National Bank of Weymouth and 
Braintree, sketch of, 148, 149. 
Race Course, 224. 
service, 214. 
Street, 193, 200. 
the, 220. 
United States, 293. 
army, 203, 
inspectors, 226. 
constitution of, 192. 
service, 215, 216, 220, 223, 226, 294. 
volunteers, 203. 
Universalist First Society, 118. 
Second Society, 119, 120. 
Third Society, 120. 
Upham, Elizabeth, 249. 
(Mrs.) Elizabeth, 249. 
(Uppame), John, 26, 249, 252, 254, 
256, 262, 264, 267, 269, 273, 275, 
276, 277, 280. 
land of, 277. 
John, Jr., 249. 
Nathaniel, 249. 
Sarah, 249. 


Valuation of the town, 94, 
Vance, William, 242. 
Van Volkenburg’s Brigade, 220. 
Vermont, 30. 
Medical College, 207. 
University, 208. 
Venus (schooner), 153. 
Vicksburg, Miss., 212, 222. 


INDEX. 


Viger, Joseph, 242. 
Village Cemetery, 196. 
Vining, Adoniram E., 242. 
Alonzo, 242. 
Andrew J., 242. 
Benjamin, Jr., 302. 
Daniel, 242. 
David, 302. 
George H., 242. 
George W., 242. 
John, 282 283, 302. 
Major (John), 59. 
John Randall, 52, 53. 
INGE, 242; 
Solon A, 242. 
William A., 242. 
Vinson, Betsey, 194. 
Hannah (Holbrook, 194. 
John, 185, 194, 302. 
Sarah (Colson, 194. 
Susanna, 194. 
Thomas (Lieut-Col., Dr., Mr.), 11, 
71, 145, 194, 302. 
Thomas Warren, 194. 
Warren, 194. 
Vinson’s Mill, sketch of, 145. 
Vinton, Josiah, Jr., 148. 
memorial, 184. 
Virginia, 18, 24, 81, 203, 217, 218, 
221, 222. 
company, 18. 
eastern, 218. 
Vogel, Henry B., 242. 
Volunteers, 83. 
Voorhees, Rev. Louis B., 115. 
Vote by ballot, the first, 41. 
Voters, qualifications of, 76, 78. 
to attend town meetings or pay a 
fine, 42. 


Wach House Hill, 254, 260. 
Wade, Dinah, 250. 
Elizabeth, 249. 
Richard, 249. 
Waie, the, 272. 
Waldron, Rev. D. W., 117, 118. 
W ales’ Hall, 118. 
Miss Mary F. R., 132, 133. 
Adjt. Nathaniel, 220. 
Timothie, 276. 
Waling, Richard, 265, 272, 278. 
land of, 264. 


INDEX. 


Walker, Edwin, 242. 

George, 242. 

Isaac H., 242. 

Roscius R., 242. 

Wall, Patrick, 242. 
Wallace, Addi, 177. 

Margaret (Sumner, 177. 

Sarah Sumner, 177. 

William S., 140. 

Walsh, John M., 140, 141. 

Michael, 242. 

Waltham, Henry, 143, 144, 265, 

Mr., 259, 263. 

Richards, Bates Mill, 289. 

sketch of, 143. 

William, 143. 

Wamouth (Weymouth), 251. 
Wampetuc, Sachem, 28, 251, 252. 
War, French and Indian, 11, 51. 

King Philip, 30, 36. 

Pequod, 11, 29. 

Rebellion, 11, 83, 214. 

Revolutionary, 11, 55, 56. 

with England, 77, 

preparations for, 60. 

Ward, James, 242. 

Patrick, 242. 

Capt. Samuel, 61, 65, 71, 302. 
Wards, town divided into, 90, 
Ware, Lawrence, 242. 
Warham, Mr., 182. 
Warner, Mrs. Susanna, 192. 
Warrant for town meeting first re- 

corded, 76. 
Warren Academy, 212. 
Anna A., 205. 
Arthure (Arthur), 273, 274, 279, 281. 
land of, 267. 
Rey. Charles I., 109. 
Dr. Ephraim Lewis, 242. 
sketch of, 204. 

Dr. John C., 197, 199. 

Sarah (Taylor-Ball, 205. 

Widow, 283. 
Washington corporation, 120. 

D. C., 87, 203, 208, 217, 220, 222, 226, 

(General), 66, 70. 

Street, 82, 119, 122, 147. 
Water privileges, 79, 80, 81. 

question, 91. 

Waterman, David, 302. 

Rey. Samuel, 164. 


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Waterman, Thomas, 186. 
Watertown (town of), 60. 
Wayland (town of), 203. 
Waymoth (Weymouth), 253. 
Waymouth (Weymouth), 39. 
(England), 247. 
Weaver (Weauer), 
264, 273. 
W ay wardens, 33. 
Webb, Asa, 149. 
Christopher, Esq., 202. 
Eliza P., 202. 
Henry, 163. 
Mary, 202. 
Margaret, 163, 202. 
(Web, Webbe), Mr., 256, 259, 263, 
266, 277, 279. 
Rev. Mr., 101, 165, 166. 
Richard, 279. 
land of, 262. 
Susan (White, 202. 
Webb's Mill, 144. 
Webcowett (Webecowett), Josias, 
sachem, 28, 251, 252. 
Weed, Otis H., Jr., 242. 
Weedon, Goodman, 282. 
William, 272. 
Weeks, James, 242. 
Nathan, 242. 
Welch, Francis, 173. 
Harriet, 173. 
James, 3d, 242. 
Weld, Rev. John, 161. 
Weldon Railroad, 223. 
Wells, Rev. Charles L., 124. 
Wendall, James C., 242. 
Wenham (town of), 162. 
Wesleyan University, 203. 
Wessaguscus ( Wessagusset), 5,6, 7, 
9, 22, 24, 25, 29,96, 157, 180, 251. 
Wesson, Benjamin, 186. 
Westfield (ffield), 255, 256, 260, 263, 
264, 266, 267, 268, 272, 275, 276, 
278, 279. 
West, Capt. Francis, 23. 
Indies, 182. 
Medway (town of), 203. 
Riding, Yorkshire, Eng., 161. 
Scituate (village of), 119. 
Wester Neck, 255, 257, 260, 264, 266, 
267, 268, 269, 270, 274, 275, 277, 
279. 


Clement, 262 


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Weston, Eliphaz, 64, 302, 
Dr. Hervey E., sketch of, 204. 
settlement, 144. 
Simeon, 302. 
Thomas, 3, 19, 20, 22. 
(Capt.) Warren, 132, 149, 
Weston’s Colony, 3, 4, 6, 19, 20, 21, 22. 
Company, 181. 
people, expedition with the Plym- 
outh folks, 21. 
they hang a thief, 21. 
Weymouth and Braintree Institu- 
tion for Savings, 149. 
Mutual Fire Insurance Com- 
pany, 149. 
Savings Bank, 14S. 
Turnpike, 146, 147. 
England, 24, 25, 96, 144, 157, 158. 
drug store, 205. 
Historical Society, 186, 195. 
files, 6. 
publications, 11, 53, 184. 
sketch of, 134. 
Iron Company, 81, 144. 
sketch of, 152. 
Landing, 15, 49, 60, 73, 76, 89, 92, 
112, 118, 121, 122, 123, 132, 135, 
138, 140, 141, 142, 146, 147, 149, 
150, 151, 154, 155, 290. 
records, 9, 10,27, 28, 29, 82, 33, 34, 
35, 41, 42, 43, 45,47. [See Town,] 
schools [see Schools], 199. 
(town of), on nearly every page. 
Wheat, Lydia, 189. 
Whelan, Edmund B., 242. 
John H., 242. 
Whipple, Gen., 220. 
Whitcomb, John M., 242. 
White, Widow Abigail (Keith, 185. 
Abner, 186. 
A.S., 140. 
Alethea, 186. 
& Ambler, 203. 
Amon, 302. 
Asa, 185, 186. 
Asa (Capt. Col.), 59, 60, 64, 71, 184, 
285, 302. 
Benjamin, 243, 302. 
Benjamin F., 149, 291. 
Calvin T., 243. 
Charles H., 243. 
Daniel, 302. 


INDEX. 


White, Ebenezer (Capt.), 127, 138, 185, 

Edward, 184. 

Francis E., 243. 

Frederick R., 2438. 

Genealogy ( Vinton’s), 184. 

Herbert, 243. 

Henry, 243. 

Hezekiah, 52. 

J. Francis, 243. 

James, 184, 243, 302. 

Capt. James, 61. 

John, 302. 

John (Capt., Major), 77, 138. 

Josiah, 133. 

Luther, 302. 

Martha, 169. 

Mary Matilda, 201. 

Mary (White, 184. 

Nathaniel, 302. 

Dr. Nathaniel, 53. 

grant of land to, 48. 
sketch of, 184. 

Nehemiah, 302. 

(Whit), Nicholas, 254, 272. 
land of, 256. 

Patrick, 243. 

Robert H., 243. 

Robert S., 243. 

Ruth (Holbrook, 185, 186. 

(Capt.) Samuel, 40. 

arrests Sir Edmund Andros, 43. 

Samuel, Jr., 302. 

Sanford, 243. 

Sarah (Baker, 184. 

Sarah (Lovell, 184, 185. 

Susan, 193. 

Tamar, 186, 288. 

Thomas, 41, 185, 186, 252, 257, 259, 
261, 266, 269, 273, 274, 275, 280, 
282, 284. 

ind of, 270. 

Dea. Thomas, 184, 185, 

Warren F., 243. 

William, 243. 

Whiting, Charles D., 248. 

Harrison, 243. 

Whitman, Abigail (Byram, 182. 

David, 302. 

Ensign, 282, 283. 

Henry, 281. 

John, 255, 260, 263, 264, 266, 272, 
275, 284. 


INDEX. 


Whitman, John, land of, 267. 

Nehemiah, 302. 

Theron W., 248. 

Thomas, 182, 282, 283. 
Whitman’s Pond, 13, 14, 27, 32, 34 
48, 144, 152, 280. 
Whitmarsh (Whitmarke, 
marck), Alce, 248. 

Ezra, 128, 286. 

(Whitmarcke), James, 248. 

(Whitmarsk), Jane, 248. 

John, 38, 248, 254, 255, 263, 264 

268, 281, 282, 283, 

John Q., 243. 

Nicholas, 264, 268, 282, 283. 

Nicholas, Onesephorus 

land of, 264. 

Onesephoris, 264, 268. 

(Whitmarke), Onseph, 248. 

Peter, 243. 

Richard, 264, 269. 

(Whytemarke), Richard, 248. 

Samuel, 302. 

Silence, 286. 

Silence (Randall, 286. 

Simon, 263, 268. 

land of, 264, 

Lieut. William, 52. 
Whitney, Edwin, 243. 

AiGve Gy) Wie, 12), 
Whittemore, William, 243. 
Whortleberry Pond, 14, 152. 
Wilber, Charles C., 243. 
Wilbraham Academy, 212. 
Wild, Col. Edward A., 220. 

John, 302. 

Wilder, Abiel, 289. 

Wilderness (battle of), 218. 
campaign, 222. _ 

Wildes, Capt. William, 287. 

Wildey Lodge (I. 0. O. F.), 141. 

Willet, G. F., 243. 

Williams, Anna, 179. 

Anna (Crocker, 179. 

Betsey, 179. 

Charles S., 243, 

Eugene S., 243. 

Joseph Crocker, 179. 

Rey. Simeon, 9, 109. 

sketch of, 179. 

Simeon, Jr., 179. 

Sophia, 179. 


Whit 


Richard, 


345 


Williams, Thomas, 179. 
Williams’ Hall, 123. 
Williamson, Joseph, 243. 
Willis, Experience (Byram, 183. 

John, 183. 

Stephen R., 243. 
Wilmington (ship), 169. 
Wilson, Rev. John, 160, 161. 

Mary E., 210. 

Wilts, county of, England, 162, 183. 

Winch, Widow Priscilla Ford, 195, 
287. 

Winchester, Va., 217. 

Winslow, Joseph B., 243. 

Rey. Josiah, 164. 

Nathan F., 243. 

Rey. William C., 124. 
Winslow’s “Good News,” 19. 

“ Relation,” 21. 

Winthrop, Elizabeth, 162. 

Goy. (John), 6, 24, 25, 97, 162, 

entertained at Wessaguscus, 25. 

visits Plymouth, 25. 

(Savage’s), 25. 

Wiswell, Rev. Ichabod, 164. 
W oburn (town of), 212. 
Wolcott, Rev. Calvin, 199. 

Elizabeth Gardner, 199. 
Wolfe (Gen.), 52. 

Wollaston, Mount, 25, 26. 


Woman's Christian ‘Temperance 
Union, 142. 

Wompatuck Encampment (I O. 
Gol )yiake 


Wood, John, 247. 
preservation of, 32. 
W oodcooke, John, 250. 
Wood’s “New England Prospect,” 
P4565 
Woodward, Sylvester R., 243. 
Worcester (city of), 206, 211. 
Samuel Thomas, 132, 133. 
W oren (Warren), Widow, 283. 
Workhouse, 73, 77. 
W orster, E. Frank, 243. 
John, 281. 
Wrentham (town of), 202. 
Wright, C. Wesley, 243. 
Henry, 243. 
Rey. William C., 122. 
William H., 243. 
Wrightington, Judah, 243. 


346 INDEX. 


Wyman (historian), 169. Yorkshire, county of, England, 
Wyre, David, 128. 161. 
Young, Benjamin M., 243. 
Xavier, St. Francis, college of, 211. Job, 243, 
St. Francis, parish of, 122. Young’s “Chronicles of the Pilgrims,” 
19, 25. 
Yale College, 204. Point (Miss.), 222. 


Yarmouth (town of), 158, 166. 
York, Me., 158. Zumbrota, Minn., 203. 








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